Medicine as Theatre, Theatre as Medicine / edited by Marlene Goldman, Alice Flaherty and Lawrence Switzky.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Flaherty, Alice, editor.

Goldman, Marlene, editor.

Switzky, Lawrence, editor.

Series:

Performance and Science: Interdisciplinary Dialogues.

Performance and Science: Interdisciplinary Dialogues

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Medicine and theater.

Performing arts medicine.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (368 pages)

Place of Publication:

London : Bloomsbury Publishing (UK), 2026.

System Details:

text file rdaft

Summary:

Responding to a need among health humanities scholars and clinicians to grapple with medicine's performative aspects, this open access book argues there are deep connections between theatre and medicine which can guide transformative insights in both disciplines. This book contends that understanding the performative aspects of caregivers' and patients' roles can tangibly improve medical outcomes. It features chapters and interviews from a wide range of scholars in the medical, health humanities, theatre, performance, and disability studies, as well as key stakeholders such as doctors, medical educators, disability activists, home caregivers and patients. Moving beyond existing applications of the arts in narrative medicine and medical education, it is clear that patients' and doctors' performances cannot be understood in isolation, nor does interpretation happen in only one direction. Multiple theatre and performance genres are discussed, including spoken drama, opera, performance art, object performance, ritual, postdramatic theatre, forum theatre, and medical performances on film. By analyzing the ensemble drama of illness, by proposing enhancements to medicine's "hidden curriculum" through roleplay, dramaturgy, and actor training in theatre and social performance theory, and by bringing patients and caregivers into the conversation, this book offers new research and real-world benefits. The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com.

Contents:

List of Illustrations List of Contributors Acknowledgements Introduction Section 1: Fashioning the Doctor's Character Chapter 1 - Authenticity, Ritual, and Medical Performance A Conversation between Timothy McGinnis and Arthur Kleinman Chapter 2 - Medical Training and Character Development: The Hidden Curriculum in Learning to Act Deborah Ocholi (McMaster University, Canada) Chapter 3 - Puppetry and Medical Performance An Interview with Rachel Warr Section 2: Patients and the Art of Illness Chapter 4 - Performing the Art of Illness: How Patients Can Ail Well and Caregivers Can Help Alice Flaherty (Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, USA) Chapter 5 - The Ensemble Arts of Healing and Learning: Forum Theatre and Pre-Texts Doris Sommer (Harvard University, USA) Chapter 6 - Rehearsing Failure: What Theatre Can Teach Medicine About Being Present Bianca Dahl (University of Toronto Scarborough, Canada) and Philip Davy McKee (Independent scholar, Canada) Section 3: Caregivers Chapter 7 - Nursing Tactics: Voice, Touch, Scent An Interview with Adele Vogelsang Chapter 8 - What Part of the Stage Are You Standing On? An Interview with George Anderson Chapter 9 - "I Like to Act Vicariously on Behalf of People" An Interview with Marcus Coates Section 4: The Pasts of Performative Medicine Chapter 10 - Medical Influences on Modern Theatre and Theatrical Influences on Modern Medicine with Is There a Doctor in the House? Medicine and the Making of Modern Drama (2008) An Interview with Stanton B. Garner, Jr. Chapter 11 - "250,000 Unnecessary Deaths": Theatricalizing the National Health Care Debate in Broadway's Medicine Show (1940) Kirsten E. Shepherd (St Catherine's College, Oxford University, UK) Chapter 12 - Performance and Medical Education: Bridging the Gap Between Public and Private Phrenology Marlis Schweitzer (York University, Canada) and Sara Masciotra-Milstein (Independent scholar, UK) Section 5: Performative Medicine in Contemporary Theatre and Drama Chapter 13 - Bedside Manner Corrine Botz (John Jay College of Criminal Justice, USA) Chapter 14 - Theatre for Social Change in the Dementia Context A Conversation between Pia Kontos and Sherry Dupuis Chapter 15 - Beyond the Cost of Care: Connection, Disability, and Embodied Reciprocity in Martyna Majok's Cost of Living Katherine Williams (University of Toronto, Canada) Chapter 16 - "Knots That I Can't Seem to Easily Undo": Playwright Matthew MacKenzie on Making Illness Dramatically Interesting An Interview with Matthew MacKenzie Conclusion - A Performative Future for Healthcare Index

Notes:

Creative Commons. CC BY-NC-ND 4.0. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

ISBN:

9781350460751

OCLC:

1587323333