The Routledge Companion to Performance and Medicine.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bouchard, Gianna.

Contributor:

Mermikides, Alex.

Series:

Routledge Companions Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Performing arts medicine.

Medicine in the performing arts.

Literature and medicine.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (505 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group, 2024.

Summary:

"The Routledge Companion to Performance and Medicine addresses the proliferation of practices that bridge performance and medicine in the contemporary moment. The scope of this book's broad range of essays includes: medicine and illness as the subject of drama and plays; the performativity of illness and the medical encounter; the roles and choreographies of the clinic; the use of theatrical techniques, such as simulation and role-play, in medical training; and, modes of performance engaged in public health campaigns, health education projects and in health-related activism. The book encompasses some of these diverse practices and discourses that emerge at the interface between medicine and performance, with a particular emphasis on practices of performance. This collection is a vital reference resource for scholars of contemporary performance, medical humanities, and the variety of interdisciplinary fields and debates around performance, medicine, health and their overlapping collaborations"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

HIV/AIDS on stage in Singapore : mass media and stigmatising discourses / April Thant Aung

The AIDS crisis, bereavement and allopathographic performance / Ellen Redling

The uber-performing uterus of Henrietta Lacks and Eve Ensler : ecologies of the womb in Mojisola Adebayo's Family tree and Eve Ensler's In the body of the world / Verónica Rodríguez

Places to (mis)carry : scoring diffracted narratives of multiple miscarriage / Joanne 'Bob' Whalley

Dancing with imagined memories : variant identities and new rehabilitative forms / Sarah-Mace Dennis

Overcoming stigma : performing the workplace experiences of people living with epilepsy in France / Brenda Bogaert

Naturalist hauntings : staging psychiatry in Anatomy of a suicide, People places things and Blue/orange / Leah Sidi

Performing death on the stage and in the hospital / Emily Russell

It's funny because it's true : Dr. Knock, Michel Foucault, and the birth of a satire / Katherine Burke

Robert Icke's The doctor : exploring modern medicine through Arthur Schnitzler's Professor Bernhardi / Judith Beniston

The excess and the erased : dramaturgical notes on performing care in medical education / James Dalton and Claire Hooker

Hidden dress codes : wearing the role of physician / Gretchen A. Case

Doctors as singers of tales : medical performance in the Homeric tradition / Alan Bleakley and Robert Marshall

The performance of surgery / Steve Reid, Laurie Rauch and Alp Numanoglu

Matters of the heart : the orchestration of hands in cardiac surgery / Christina Lammer, Tamar Tembeck and Wilfried Wisser

Becoming / Lucinda Coleman

Building common fictions : practising dramaturgy as mediation in three medical performances / Pauline Bouchet

Performing gratitude : a case study of the clap-for-carers movement / Giskin Day

Performance, community and disability in Gujarat : reflections in hindsight / Shilpa Das

Quiet activism : a space to dare / Katharine E. Low

Rally against measles : performances for community mobilisation in Lebanon / Sally Souraya

Speaking to power, speaking to people : responsive practice in relation to maternity issues in western Kenya / Jane Plastow

Making a drama out of a crisis : using theatre to co-research mental health literacy in Kerala / Andy Barrett, Chandradasan and Michael Wilson

Narrative Rx : storytelling's healing capacities in public health / Yewande O. Addie, David O. Fakunle and Jeffrey Pufahl

Drama in mental health care : the development and use of schizodrama in the Brazilian psychiatric support service / Cinira Magali Fortuna, Felipe Lima dos Santos, Jorge Antônio Nunes Bichuetti, Maria de Fátima Oliveira and Silvia Matumoto

Illness and the one-to-one encounter / Brian Lobel and Emily Underwood-Lee

Care aesthetics : the art, aesthetics and performance of health care / James Thompson

An art of contingency : producing biosocial theatre / Simon Parry

At the needle point : theatre and vaccine scepticism / Stanton B. Garner, Jr.

Constructing a fictional skin disease : pandemic as a political allegory in The itch / Deniz Başar

Xenograftie (artificial sorrow) / Traci Kelly

Hearing voices : the creation and staging of a play based on interviews with psychiatric patients / Clare Summerskill

Depth, intimacy, and dissection : Howard Barker's critique of medicine in He stumbled / Alireza Fakhrkonandeh and Yiğit Sümbül

Staging corpses : reanimating medical history through puppetry / Laura Purcell-Gates

Performing the pill : contemporary feminist performance exploring the side effects of hormonal contraception / Alex Mermikides and Katie Paterson

The gift of life : organ transplantation and surrogacy on the stage / Gianna Bouchard

Performing mental wellbeing in conversations with AI chatbots / Adelina Ong

You are my territory and I am your explorer / Liz Orton

Discipline and Askēsis : training, spiritual philosophy and dance in Russell Maliphant's choreographic practice / Kélina Gotman

Tooth fairies for adults : performing ritual / Helen Pynor

Waiting room : material moments of medicine as performance / Annja Neumann with Uta Baldauf

'Statecraft' as 'Stagecraft' : performing public health and the production of the socially distanced spectator / Freya Verlander

Active ingredients : notes on Clod Ensemble's Placebo / Suzy Willson

To enter a place of pain : the work of Eugenie Lee / Bec Dean.

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ISBN:

1-003-85833-3

1-003-85828-7

1-003-03650-3

9781003036500

OCLC:

1431980154