Description
Book SynopsisTheatre and Medicine offers a tour of this interdisciplinary terrain. Organized into four distinct topics, each represents crucial ways of understanding the theatre-medicine relationship. From discussions on the somatic underpinnings of the body that medicine and theatre take as their subject through to the historical association of theatre and contagion, and the pervasive role of doctors and the practitioners of alternative medicine in Western theatre and role of patients on and off stage. Together, this brief study considers the institutional contexts of theatre's medical performances in the early twenty-first century.
Trade ReviewTheatre & Medicine is compelling in its tracing of Western critical discourses on the human body and how it performs. Its readable prose, effective case studies, and length make Theatre & Medicine an accessible and relevant introductory text for students in the medical humanities and theater studies. * Journal of Medical Humanities *
Table of Contents1. Introduction 2. Bodies 3. Contagion 4. Practitioners and Patients 5. Institutions 6. Further reading Index
