1st Edition
The Routledge Companion to Performance and Medicine
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 http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution CC-BY 4.0 license.
PART 1
Symptoms
1. HIV/AIDS on stage in Singapore: mass media and stigmatising discourses
April Thant Aung
2. The AIDS crisis, bereavement and allopathographic performance
Ellen Redling
3. 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
4. Places to (mis)carry: scoring diffracted narratives of multiple miscarriage
Joanne ‘Bob’ Whalley
5. Dancing with imagined memories: variant identities and new rehabilitative forms
Sarah-Mace Dennis
6. Overcoming stigma: performing the workplace experiences of people living with epilepsy in France
Brenda Bogaert
7. Naturalist hauntings: staging psychiatry in Anatomy of a Suicide, People Places Things and Blue/Orange
Leah Sidi
8. Performing death on the stage and in the hospital
Emily Russell
PART 2
Diagnosis
9. It’s funny because it’s true: Dr. Knock, Michel Foucault, and the birth of a satire
Katherine Burke
10. Robert Icke’s The Doctor: exploring modern medicine through Arthur Schnitzler’s Professor Bernhardi
Judith Beniston
11. The excess and the erased: dramaturgical notes on performing care in medical education
James Dalton and Claire Hooker
12. Hidden dress codes: wearing the role of physician
Gretchen A. Case
13. Doctors as singers of tales: medical performance in the Homeric tradition
Alan Bleakley and Robert Marshall
14. The performance of surgery
Steve Reid, Laurie Rauch and Alp Numanoglu
15. Matters of the heart: the orchestration of hands in cardiac surgery
Christina Lammer, Tamar Tembeck and Wilfried Wisser
16. Becoming
Lucinda Coleman
17. Building common fictions: practising dramaturgy as mediation in three medical performances
Pauline Bouchet
18. Performing gratitude: a case study of the clap-for-carers movement
Giskin Day
PART 3
Care and Cure
19. Performance, community and disability in Gujarat: reflections in hindsight
Shilpa Das
20. Quiet activism: a space to dare
Katharine E. Low
21. Rally Against Measles: performances for community mobilisation in Lebanon
Sally Souraya
22. Speaking to power: speaking to people: responsive practice in relation to maternity issues in western Kenya
Jane Plastow
23. Making a drama out of a crisis: using theatre to co-research mental health literacy in Kerala
Andy Barrett, Chandradasan and Michael Wilson
24. Narrative Rx: storytelling’s healing capacities in public health
Yewande O. Addie, David O. Fakunle and Jeffrey Pufahl
25. 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
26. Illness and the one-to-one encounter
Brian Lobel and Emily Underwood-Lee
27. Care aesthetics: the art, aesthetics and performance of health care
James Thompson
28. An art of contingency: producing biosocial theatre
Simon Parry
PART 4
Side Effects
29. 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 Başar
31. Xenograftie (Artificial Sorrow)
Traci Kelly
32. Hearing voices: the creation and staging of a play based on interviews with psychiatric patients
Clare Summerskill
33. Depth, intimacy, and dissection: Howard Barker’s critique of medicine in He Stumbled
Alireza Fakhrkonandeh and Yiğit Sümbül
34. Staging corpses: reanimating medical history through puppetry
Laura Purcell-Gates
35. Performing the pill: contemporary feminist performance exploring the side effects of hormonal contraception
Alex Mermikides and Katie Paterson
36. The gift of life: organ transplantation and surrogacy on the stage
Gianna Bouchard
PART 5
Experiments
37. Performing mental wellbeing in conversations with AI chatbots
Adelina Ong
38. You Are My Territory and I Am Your Explorer
Liz Orton
39. Discipline and askēsis: training, spiritual philosophy and dance in Russell Maliphant’s choreographic practice
Kélina Gotman
40. Tooth fairies for adults: performing ritual
Helen Pynor
41. Waiting Room: material moments of medicine as performance
Annja Neumann with Uta Baldauf
42.‘Statecraft’ as ‘stagecraft’: performing public health and the production of the socially distanced spectator
Freya Verlander
43. Active ingredients: notes on Clod Ensemble’s Placebo
Suzy Willson
44. To enter a place of pain: the work of Eugenie Lee
Bec Dean
Biography
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.
