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Performance and the medical body

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Performance and the medical body/ edited by Alex Mermikides and Gianna Bouchard.
other author:	Mermikides, Alex.
Published:	London, England :Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, : 2016.,
Description:	1 online resource (xv, 249 p.)
Subject:	Theater. -
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.5040/9781472570819?locatt=label:secondary_bloomsburyCollections
ISBN:	9781472570819 (ebk.)

Performance and the medical body
Performance and the medical body[electronic resource] /edited by Alex Mermikides and Gianna Bouchard. - London, England :Bloomsbury Methuen Drama,2016. - 1 online resource (xv, 249 p.) - Performance and science : interdisciplinary dialogues.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Cover -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- List of Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Part One: Performing the Medical -- 1 A Cabinet of (Medical) Performance Curiosities -- 2 The Diagnostic Gaze: Nineteenth-Century Contexts for Medicine and Performance -- 3 The Bluer Flowers of the Medical Theatre: Visiting with Aliens, Poppies and Antipodean Spas -- 4 Performing Surgery -- Part Two: Performing Patients -- 5 The Patient Performer: Embodied Pathography in Contemporary Productions -- 6 Fun with Cancer Patients: The Affect of Cancer -- 7 DOC: The Narrative Performance of Expertise -- 8 Cough, Bitch, Cough: Reflections on Sickness and the Coughing Body in Performance -- Part Three: Performing Body Parts -- 9 The Pain of 'Specimenhood' -- 10 Clod Ensemble, An Anatomie in Four Quarters Rehearsal Notes -- 11 On the Emergent Properties of Death: When Words Fall Apart -- 12 Performing the Microscopic: Beyond Eye and Brain -- 13 Copy, Cut, Paste -- Humans (Re- )Printed: Lynn Hershman Leeson's The Infinity Engine -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

Abstract freely available; full-text restricted to individual document purchasers.

This edited collection focuses on performance practice and analysis that engages with medical and biomedical sciences. After locating the 'biologization' of theatre at the turn of the twentieth century, it examines a range of contemporary practices that respond to understandings of the human body as revealed by biomedical science. In bringing together a variety of analytical perspectives, the book draws on scholars, scientists, artists and practices that are at the forefront of current creative, scientific and academic research. Its exploration of the dynamics and exchange between performance and medicine will stimulate a widening of the debate around key issues such as subjectivity, patient narratives, identity, embodiment, agency, medical ethics, health and illness. In focusing on an interdisciplinary understanding of performance, the book examines the potential of performance and theatre to intervene in, shape, inform and extend vital debates around biomedical knowledge and practice in the contemporary moment.

ISBN: 9781472570819 (ebk.)Subjects--Topical Terms:

836732
Theater.

LC Class. No.: PN2598.C84 / C65 2016

Dewey Class. No.: 792.01

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