ABSTRACT
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 chapters 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 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.
Chapter 18 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at https://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution CC-BY 4.0 license.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part 1|80 pages
Symptoms
chapter 3|12 pages
The uber-performing uterus of Henrietta Lacks and Eve Ensler
chapter 6|6 pages
Overcoming stigma
chapter 7|12 pages
Naturalist hauntings
part 2|104 pages
Diagnosis
chapter 9|11 pages
It's funny because it's true
chapter 10|10 pages
Robert Icke's The Doctor
chapter 11|11 pages
The excess and the erased
chapter 17|12 pages
Building common fictions
part 3|110 pages
Care and Cure
chapter 22|10 pages
Speaking to power: Speaking to people
chapter 23|11 pages
Making a drama out of a crisis
chapter 25|9 pages
Drama in mental health care
part 4|74 pages
Side Effects
chapter 30|5 pages
Constructing a fictional skin disease
chapter 32|5 pages
Hearing voices
chapter 33|12 pages
Depth, intimacy, and dissection
chapter 35|11 pages
Performing the pill
part 5|92 pages
Experiments