The Routledge Companion to Performance and Medicine

Part 1: Symptoms 1. HIV/AIDS on Stage in Singapore: mass media and stigmatising discourses April Thant Aung 2. The AIDS Crisis, Bereavement and Allopathographic Performance Ellen Redling 3. The Uber-Performing Uterus of Henrietta Lacks and Eve Ensler: ecologies of the womb in Mojisola Adebayo’s Family Tree and Eve Ensler’s In the Body of the World Verónica Rodríguez 4. Places to (Mis)carry: scoring diffracted narratives of multiple miscarriage Joanne ‘Bob’ Whalley 5. Dancing with Imagined Memories: variant identities and new rehabilitative forms Sarah-Mace Dennis 6. Overcoming Stigma: performing the workplace experiences of people living with epilepsy in France Brenda Bogaert 7. Naturalist Hauntings: staging psychiatry in Anatomy of a Suicide, People Places Things and Blue/Orange Leah Sidi 8. Performing Death on the Stage and in the Hospital Emily Russell Part 2: Diagnosis 9. It’s Funny Because It’s True: Dr. Knock, Michel Foucault, and the birth of a satire Katherine Burke 10. Robert Icke’s The Doctor: exploring modern medicine through Arthur Schnitzler’s Professor Bernhardi Judith Beniston 11. The Excess and the Erased: dramaturgical notes on performing care in medical education James Dalton and Claire Hooker 12. Hidden Dress Codes: wearing the role of physician Gretchen A. Case 13. Doctors as Singers of Tales: medical performance in the Homeric tradition Alan Bleakley and Robert Marshall 14. The Performance of Surgery Steve Reid, Laurie Rauch and Alp Numanoglu 15. Matters of the Heart: the orchestration of hands in cardiac surgery Christina Lammer, Tamar Tembeck and Wilfried Wisser 16. Becoming Lucinda Coleman 17. Building Common Fictions: practising dramaturgy as mediation in three medical performances Pauline Bouchet 18. Performing Gratitude: a case study of the clap-for-carers movement Giskin Day Part 3: Care and Cure 19. Performance, Community and Disability in Gujarat: reflections in hindsight Shilpa Das 20. Quiet Activism: a space to dare Katharine E. Low 21. Rally Against Measles: performances for community mobilisation in Lebanon Sally Souraya 22. Speaking to Power, Speaking to People: responsive practice in relation to maternity issues in Western Kenya Jane Plastow 23. Making a Drama out of a Crisis: using theatre to co-research mental health literacy in Kerala Andy Barrett, Chandradasan and Michael Wilson 24. Narrative Rx: storytelling’s healing capacities in public health Yewande O. Addie, David O. Fakunle and Jeffrey Pufahl 25. Drama in Mental Health Care: the development and use of schizodrama in the Brazilian psychiatric support service Cinira Magali Fortuna, Felipe Lima dos Santos, Jorge Antônio Nunes Bichuetti, Maria de Fátima Oliveira and Silvia Matumoto 26. Illness and the One-to-One Encounter Brian Lobel and Emily Underwood-Lee 27. Care Aesthetics: the art, aesthetics and performance of health care James Thompson 28. An Art of Contingency: producing biosocial theatre Simon Parry Part 4: Side Effects 29. At the Needle Point: theatre and vaccine scepticism Stanton B. Garner, Jr. 30. Constructing a Fictional Skin Disease: pandemic as a political allegory in The Itch Deniz Başar 31. Xenograftie (Artificial Sorrow) Traci Kelly 32. Hearing Voices: the creation and staging of a play based on interviews with psychiatric patients Clare Summerskill 33. Depth, Intimacy, and Dissection: Howard Barker’s critique of medicine in He Stumbled Alireza Fakhrkonandeh and Yiğit Sümbül 34. Staging Corpses: reanimating medical history through puppetry Laura Purcell-Gates 35. Performing the Pill: contemporary feminist performance exploring the side effects of hormonal contraception Alex Mermikides and Katie Paterson 36. The Gift of Life: organ transplantation and surrogacy on the stage Gianna Bouchard Part 5: Experiments 37. Performing Mental Wellbeing in Conversations with AI Chatbots Adelina Ong 38. You are My Territory and I am Your Explorer Liz Orton 39. Discipline and Askēsis: training, spiritual philosophy and dance in Russell Maliphant’s choreographic practice Kélina Gotman 40. Tooth Fairies for Adults: performing ritual Helen Pynor 41. Waiting Room: material moments of medicine as performance Annja Neumann with Uta Baldauf 42.‘Statecraft’ as ‘Stagecraft’: performing public health and the production of the socially distanced spectator Freya Verlander 43. Active Ingredients: notes on Clod Ensemble’s Placebo Suzy Willson 44. To Enter a Place of Pain: the work of Eugenie Lee Bec Dean