Eva Bojner Horwitz
Eva Bojner Horwitz is employed as a professor of music and health at KMH and conducts research in a broad and interdisciplinary field that, among other things, combines social medicine, music psychology and health science with a focus on social sustainability in school and healthcare systems.
About the researcher
Eva works as a professor of music and health and is also an affiliated researcher at the Department of Clinical Neuroscience at Karolinska Institutet (KI). Eva is associate professor and doctor in social medicine, cultural health researcher, specialized in psychosomatic medicine and creative arts.
Eva supervises doctoral students and is also a co-founder of the Center for Social Sustainability (CSS)
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Research description
Music and health is an interdisciplinary field with points of contact between music as an artistic activity, music therapy, music pedagogy, music psychology, music sociology, philosophy, music science, social medicine and medicine.
Thanks to today's refined measuring instruments, we can follow the course of events when we sing, make music and how this affects our audience. The value of music activities both for the body and the social body can be implemented both in school systems and in healthcare systems thanks to KMH's research. Research results have been published in books such as "The Cultural Health Box", "Culture for your Health", "Improve your health with music", "Theatre for, by, and with patients", "Culture and public health", "Fibromyalgia – for stress cause?”, “Humanizing Health Care with music”, “Embodied Compassion” as well as in various book chapters for Oxford University Press & Springer Books.
Research projects
Publications
Eva Bojner Horwitz's publications in DiVA External link.
Education
Eva is associate professor and doctor of social medicine and received her doctorate in 2004 at Uppsala University with the thesis "Dance/Movement Therapy in Fibromyalgia Patients: Aspects and Consequences of Verbal, Visual and Hormonal Analyses".