Prelude to Music and Medicine

Abstract

An education isn’t how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It’s being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don’t.’’ So wrote Anatole France in the late 1800s (France, 1924). His words are useful in prompting an evalua- tion of where we are today as we consider health and the activities of healing in using music. The experi- ences of many practitioners, musicians, researchers, artists, patients, and caregivers have guided our decision to undertake this new journal...