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CONTENTS

1 Benjamin D. Koen, Gregory Barz, Kenneth Brummel-Smith: Confluence of Consciousness in Music, Medicine, and Culture
2 Marina Roseman: A Fourfold Framework for Producing Sociohistorically Specific, Clinically Relevant, Cross-Culturally Resonant, and Biomedically Viable Research on Music and Medicine
3 Harold G. Koenig: Religion, Spirituality, and Healing: Research, Dialogue, and Directions
4 Michael L. Penn and Philip Kojo Clarke: Art, Culture, and Pediatric Mental & Behavioral Health: An Interdisciplinary, Public Health Approach
5 Benjamin D. Koen: Music-Prayer-Meditation Dynamics in Healing
6 Devon Hinton: Healing Through Flexibility Primers: Examples from Indonesia, the United States, and Northeastern Thailand
7 Gregory Barz: The Performance of HIV/AIDS in Uganda: Medical Ethnomusicology and Cultural Memory
8 Kenneth Brummel-Smith: Alzheimer’s Disease and the Promise of Music and Culture as a Healing Process: The Need for a Unifying Theory
9 Alicia Ann Clair: Music Therapy Evidence-Based Outcomes in Dementia Care: A Way to Better Life Quality for Those with Alzheimer’s Disease and Their Families
10 Theresa A. Allison: Songwriting in the Nursing Home: Transcending the Boundaries of Institutionalization through Music
11 Michael B. Bakan: Preventive Care for the Dead: Beleganjur Music and the Communal Care of Souls in Balinese Cremation Ceremonies
12 Michael Rohrbacher: The Application of Hood’s Nine Levels to the Practice of Music Therapy
13 Karen Brummel-Smith: Music and the Meditative Mind: Toward a Science of the Ineffable
14 Dale A. Olsen: Cosmological Dialogues and Celestial Battles: Shamanism, Music, and Healing in Two Contrasting South American Cultural Areas
15 Jean During: Therapeutic Dimensions of Music in Islamic Culture
16 Rajan Sankaran: Homoeopathic Healing With Music
17 Therese West and Gail Ironson: Effects of Music for Human Health and Wellness: Physiological Measurements and Research Design
18 Jay Klein, John Graham-Pole: Building Community Within the Healthcare Environment: Marrying Art and Technology
19 Benjamin D. Koen, Michael B. Bakan, Fred Kobylarz, Lindee Morgan, Rachel Goff, Sally Kahn, Megan Bakan: Personhood Consciousness: A Child-Ability Centerd Approach to Socio-Musical Healing and Autism Spectrum Disorders
20 Kevin Locke and Benjamin D. Koen: The Lakota Hoop Dance as Medicine for Social Healing
21 Leonie E. Naylor and Michael L. Naylor: The Educator’s Role in Cultural Healing and the Sacred Space of the World Music Classroom