Performance and the medical body /

This edited collection focuses on performance practice and analysis that engages with medical and biomedical sciences. After locating the "biologization" of theater at the turn of the twentieth century, it examines a range of contemporary practices that respond to understandings of the hum...

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Other Authors: Mermikides, Alex (Editor), Bouchard, Gianna (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, 2016.
Series:Performance and science: interdisciplinary dialogues.
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505 0 |a List of illustrations -- List of contributors -- Acknowledgements. Introduction / Alex Mermikides and Gianna Bouchard. Part 1 Performing the medical : A cabinet of (medical) performance curiosities / Jennifer Parker-Starbuck -- The diagnostic gaze: nineteenth-century contexts for medicine and performance / Kirsten E. Shepherd-Barr -- The bluer flowers of the medical theatre: visiting with aliens, poppies and antipodean spas / Petra Kuppers -- Performing surgery / Roger Kneebone. Part 2 Performing patients : The patient performer: embodied pathography in contemporary productions / Emma Brozinski -- Fun with cancer patients: the affect of cancer / Brian Lobel -- DOC: the narrative performance of expertise / P. Solomon Lennox and Fiona Pettit -- Cough, bitch, cough: reflections on sickness and the coughing body in performance / Martin O'Brien. Part 3 Performing body parts : The pain of "specimenhood" / Gianna Bouchard -- Clod ensemble, An Anatomie in Four Quarters rehearsal notes / Suzy Willson -- On the emergent properties of death: when words fall apart / Helen Pynor -- Performing the microscopic: beyond eye and brain / Alex Mermikides -- Copy, cut, paste: humans (re-)printed: Lynn Hershman Leeson's The Infinity Engine / Gabriella Giannachi. Notes -- Bibliography -- Index. 
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