Foreword/ Music at the hear ot things / Micheál Ó Súilleabháin -- Introduction / Jane Edwards -- Music therapy inspired transient ward communities in oncology / Clare O'Callaghan -- Developing music therapy programs in medical practice and healthcare communities / Joanne Loewy -- Integrating models of music into acute hospitals : an Irish perspective / Hilary Moss -- Psychological and physical benefits of participation in vocal performance / Betty Bailey and Jane Davidson -- Health musicking as cultural inclusion / Kari Batt-Rawden, Susan Trythall and Tia DeNora -- Context, culture and risk : towards an understanding of the impact of music in health care settings / Norma Daykin -- Using multipe methods in music therapy health care research : reflections on using multiple methods in a research project about receptive music therapy with cancer survivors / Lars Ole Bonde -- Focussing on outcomes : undertaking the Music therapy research journal in medical settings / Wendy L. Magee -- Participation, mutuality, resistance : intercultural music therapy in a post-war region / Susanne Metzner and Constanze Bürger -- Music therapy : promoting healthy mother-infant relations in the vulnerable refugee and asylum seeker community / Jane Edwards, Maeve Scahill and Helen Phelan -- Developng communicative relationships in music therapy with people who have moderate to severe dementia / Alison Ledger -- Antecedents of contemporary uses for music in healthcare contexts : the 189-s to the 19402 / Jane Edwards.