The Routledge Companion to Performance and Medicine

Gianna Bouchard, Alex Mermikides (King's College London, UK)

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Routledge
27 June 2025

Theatre Studies; Creative therapy (eg art, music, drama)

Series: Routledge Companions

The Routledge Companion to Performance and Medicine addresses the proliferation of practices that bridge performance and medicine in the contemporary moment.

The scope of this book's broad range of chapters includes medicine and illness as the subject of drama and plays; the performativity of illness and the medical encounter; the roles and choreographies of the clinic; the use of theatrical techniques, such as simulation and role-play, in medical training; and modes of performance engaged in public health campaigns, health education projects and health-related activism. The book encompasses some of these diverse practices and discourses that emerge at the interface between medicine and performance, with a particular emphasis on practices of performance.

This collection is a vital reference resource for scholars of contemporary performance; medical humanities; and the variety of interdisciplinary fields and debates around performance, medicine, health and their overlapping collaborations.

Chapter 18 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution CC-BY 4.0 license.

Edited by: Gianna Bouchard, Alex Mermikides (King's College London, UK)
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 246mm, Width: 174mm,
Weight: 880g
ISBN: 9780367477769
ISBN 10: 0367477769
Series: Routledge Companions
Pages: 484
Publication Date: 27 June 2025
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Gianna Bouchard is Head of the Department of Drama and Theatre Arts at the University of Birmingham, UK. Alex Mermikides is D'Oyly Carte Senior Lecturer in Arts and Health at King's College London, UK.