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The Routledge Companion to Performance and Medicine addresses the proliferation of practices that bridge performance and medicine in the contemporary moment.
List of contents
Part 1: Symptoms1. HIV/AIDS on Stage in Singapore: mass media and stigmatising discourses
April Thant Aung2. The AIDS Crisis, Bereavement and Allopathographic Performance
Ellen Redling3. 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 Rodríguez4. Places to (Mis)carry: scoring diffracted narratives of multiple miscarriage
Joanne 'Bob' Whalley5. Dancing with Imagined Memories: variant identities and new rehabilitative forms
Sarah-Mace Dennis6. Overcoming Stigma: performing the workplace experiences of people living with epilepsy in France
Brenda Bogaert7. Naturalist Hauntings: staging psychiatry in Anatomy of a Suicide, People Places Things and Blue/Orange
Leah Sidi8. Performing Death on the Stage and in the Hospital
Emily RussellPart 2: Diagnosis9. It's Funny Because It's True: Dr. Knock, Michel Foucault, and the birth of a satire
Katherine Burke10. Robert Icke's The Doctor: exploring modern medicine through Arthur Schnitzler's Professor Bernhardi
Judith Beniston11. The Excess and the Erased: dramaturgical notes on performing care in medical education
James Dalton and Claire Hooker12. Hidden Dress Codes: wearing the role of physician
Gretchen A. Case13. Doctors as Singers of Tales: medical performance in the Homeric tradition
Alan Bleakley and Robert Marshall14. The Performance of Surgery
Steve Reid, Laurie Rauch and Alp Numanoglu15. Matters of the Heart: the orchestration of hands in cardiac surgery
Christina Lammer, Tamar Tembeck and Wilfried Wisser16. Becoming
Lucinda Coleman17. Building Common Fictions: practising dramaturgy as mediation in three medical performances
Pauline Bouchet18. Performing Gratitude: a case study of the clap-for-carers movement
Giskin DayPart 3: Care and Cure19. Performance, Community and Disability in Gujarat: reflections in hindsight
Shilpa Das20. Quiet Activism: a space to dare
Katharine E. Low21. Rally Against Measles: performances for community mobilisation in Lebanon
Sally Souraya22. Speaking to Power, Speaking to People: responsive practice in relation to maternity issues in Western Kenya
Jane Plastow23. Making a Drama out of a Crisis: using theatre to co-research mental health literacy in Kerala
Andy Barrett, Chandradasan and Michael Wilson24. Narrative Rx: storytelling's healing capacities in public health
Yewande O. Addie, David O. Fakunle and Jeffrey Pufahl25. 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 Matumoto26. Illness and the One-to-One Encounter
Brian Lobel and Emily Underwood-Lee27. Care Aesthetics: the art, aesthetics and performance of health care
James Thompson28. An Art of Contingency: producing biosocial theatre
Simon ParryPart 4: Side Effects29. At the Needle Point: theatre and vaccine scepticism
Stanton B. Garner, Jr.30. Constructing a Fictional Skin Disease: pandemic as a political allegory in The Itch
Deniz Bäar31. Xenograftie (Artificial Sorrow)
Traci Kelly32. Hearing Voices: the creation and staging of a play based on interviews with psychiatric patients
Clare Summerskill33. Depth, Intimacy, and Dissection: Howard Barker's critique of medicine in He Stumbled
Alireza Fakhrkonandeh and Yi¿it Sümbül34. Staging Corpses: reanimating medical history through puppetry
Laura Purcell-Gates35. Performing the Pill: contemporary feminist performance exploring the side effects of hormonal contraception
Alex Mermikides and Katie Paterson36. The Gift of Life: organ transplantation and surrogacy on the stage
Gianna BouchardPart 5: Experiments37. Performing Mental Wellbeing in Conversations with AI Chatbots
Adelina Ong38. You are My Territory and I am Your Explorer
Liz Orton39. Discipline and Ask¿sis: training, spiritual philosophy and dance in Russell Maliphant's choreographic practice
Kélina Gotman40. Tooth Fairies for Adults: performing ritual
Helen Pynor41. Waiting Room: material moments of medicine as performance
Annja Neumann with Uta Baldauf42.'Statecraft' as 'Stagecraft': performing public health and the production of the socially distanced spectator
Freya Verlander43. Active Ingredients: notes on Clod Ensemble's Placebo
Suzy Willson44. To Enter a Place of Pain: the work of Eugenie Lee
Bec Dean
About the author
Gianna Bouchard is Head of the Department of Drama and Theatre Arts at the University of Birmingham, UK.
Alex Mermikides is D'Oyly Carte Senior Lecturer in Arts and Health at King's College London, UK.
