ABSTRACT
This chapter presents a selection of current arts projects in Scotland's capital city, which are designed and delivered with the health and wellbeing of their participants in mind. The city's creative mission continues throughout the year under the guise of a range of local arts initiatives many of which are designed to refocus attention on the wellbeing of the city's own inhabitants. The concept of a relationship between the arts and healthcare delivery is not a new phenomenon and its history long pre-dates the foundation of the public health systems known today. The conviction that beauty and health are inextricably linked re-emerged in the fourteenth century in the form of the imposing religious frescoes of Catholic southern Europe, which were designed to inspire confidence in patients that they were being treated in institutions devoted exclusively to their wellbeing.
