Medicine as Theatre, Theatre as Medicine
Responding to a need among health humanities scholars and clinicians to grapple with medicine’s performative aspects, this open access book argues there are deep connections between theatre and medicine which can guide transformative insights in both disciplines. This book contends that understandin...
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| description | Responding to a need among health humanities scholars and clinicians to grapple with medicine’s performative aspects, this open access book argues there are deep connections between theatre and medicine which can guide transformative insights in both disciplines. This book contends that understanding the performative aspects of caregivers’ and patients’ roles can tangibly improve medical outcomes. It features chapters and interviews from a wide range of scholars in the medical, health humanities, theatre, performance, and disability studies, as well as key stakeholders such as doctors, medical educators, disability activists, home caregivers and patients. Moving beyond existing applications of the arts in narrative medicine and medical education, it is clear that patients’ and doctors’ performances cannot be understood in isolation, nor does interpretation happen in only one direction. Multiple theatre and performance genres are discussed, including spoken drama, opera, performance art, object performance, ritual, postdramatic theatre, forum theatre, and medical performances on film. By analyzing the ensemble drama of illness, by proposing enhancements to medicine’s “hidden curriculum” through roleplay, dramaturgy, and actor training in theatre and social performance theory, and by bringing patients and caregivers into the conversation, this book offers new research and real-world benefits. The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1777482026-06-22T05:04:11Z Medicine as Theatre, Theatre as Medicine Goldman, Marlene Flaherty, Alice Switzky, Lawrence Theatre studies Medicine History of medicine History of theatre Performance Studies Healing Acting Medical education Doctors Patients Caregivers Gender Race Class Sexual orientation Disability Age thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AT Performing arts::ATD Theatre studies thema EDItEUR::M Medicine and Nursing::MB Medicine: general issues::MBX History of medicine Responding to a need among health humanities scholars and clinicians to grapple with medicine’s performative aspects, this open access book argues there are deep connections between theatre and medicine which can guide transformative insights in both disciplines. This book contends that understanding the performative aspects of caregivers’ and patients’ roles can tangibly improve medical outcomes. It features chapters and interviews from a wide range of scholars in the medical, health humanities, theatre, performance, and disability studies, as well as key stakeholders such as doctors, medical educators, disability activists, home caregivers and patients. Moving beyond existing applications of the arts in narrative medicine and medical education, it is clear that patients’ and doctors’ performances cannot be understood in isolation, nor does interpretation happen in only one direction. Multiple theatre and performance genres are discussed, including spoken drama, opera, performance art, object performance, ritual, postdramatic theatre, forum theatre, and medical performances on film. By analyzing the ensemble drama of illness, by proposing enhancements to medicine’s “hidden curriculum” through roleplay, dramaturgy, and actor training in theatre and social performance theory, and by bringing patients and caregivers into the conversation, this book offers new research and real-world benefits. The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. 2026-06-22T05:04:10Z 2026-06-22T05:04:10Z 2026-06-21T09:17:17Z 2026 book book ONIX_20260621T103019_9781350460737_83 https://doi.org/10.5040/9781350460751?locatt=label:secondary_bloomsburyCollections https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/114209 9781350460737 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/177748 eng Performance and Science: Interdisciplinary Dialogues open access Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Methuen Drama b7fec79e-c133-4cb3-9544-88060a4d4e06 9781350460737 Methuen Drama 368 London open access |
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