Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Mermikides, Alex,
• Bouchard, Gianna,

Titel

Performance and the medical body

Ort / Verlag

London, England : Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc,, London, England : Bloomsbury Publishing,

Erscheinungsjahr

2020

Link zum Volltext

• Bloomsbury Drama Online: Critical Studies and Performance Practice - Annual Update 2021

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Description based upon print version of record.
• 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.
• 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.
• Also published in print.
• Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCOhost, viewed October 2, 2020).