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Performance, Medicine and the Human (Hardcover)
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Performance, Medicine and the Human (Hardcover)
Series: Performance and Science: Interdisciplinary Dialogues
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Performance and medicine are now converging in unprecedented ways.
London's theatres reveal an appetite for medical themes - John
Boyega is subjected to medical experiments in Jack Thorne's Woycek,
while Royal National Theatre produces a novel musical about cancer.
At the same time, performance-makers seek to improve our health,
using dance to increase mobility for those living with Parkinson's
disease or performance magic as physiotherapy for children with
paraplegia. Performance, Medicine and the Human surveys this
emerging field, providing case studies based on the author's own
experience of devising medical performances in collaboration with
cancer patients, biomedical scientists and healthcare educators.
Examining contemporary medical performance reveals an ancient
preoccupation, evident in the practices of both theatre and
healing, with the human. Like medicine, theatre puts the human on
display in order to understand and, perhaps, alleviate the
suffering inherent to the human condition. Medical practice
constitutes a sort of theatre in which doctors, nurses and patients
perform their humaneness and humanity. This insight has much to
offer at a time when established notions of the human are being
radically rethought, partly in response to emerging biomedical
knowledge. Performance, Medicine and the Human argues that
contemporary medical performance can shed new light on what it
means to be human - and what we mean by the human, the humane,
humanism and the humanities - at a time when these notions are
being fundamentally rethought. Its insights are relevant to
scholars in performance studies, the medical humanities, healthcare
education and beyond.
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