Research Catalog

Title

Performance and the medical body / edited by Alex Mermikides and Gianna Bouchard.

Publication

London : Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, 2016.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Mermikides, Alex.
• Bouchard, Gianna.

Description

xv, 249 pages : illustrations; 22 cm

Summary

This edited collection focuses on performance practice and analysis that engages with medical and biomedical sciences. After locating the "Biologization" of theatre at the turn of the twentieth century, it examines a range of contemporary practices that respond to understandings of the human body as revealed by biomedical science. In bringing together a variety of analytical perspectives, the book draws on scholars, scientists, artists and practices that are at the forefront of current creative and scientific research. Its exploration of the dynamics and exchange between performance and medicine will stimulate a widening of the debate around key issues such as subjectivity, patient narratives, identity, embodiment, agency, medical ethics, health and illness. In focusing on an interdisciplinary understanding of performance, the book examines the potential of performance and theatre to intervene in, shape, inform and extend vital debates around biomedical knowledge and practice in the contemporary moment.

Series Statement

Performance and science: interdisciplinary dialogues

Uniform Title

Performance and science: interdisciplinary dialogues.

Subject

• Theater
• Medicine in art
• Human body

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages [228]-242) and index (pages [243]-249)

Contents

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.

Call Number

MWET 16-1802

ISBN

• 1472570782
• 9781472570789

OCLC

927292464

Title

Performance and the medical body / edited by Alex Mermikides and Gianna Bouchard.

Imprint

London : Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, 2016.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Performance and science: interdisciplinary dialogues

Performance and science: interdisciplinary dialogues.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages [228]-242) and index (pages [243]-249)

Added Author

Mermikides, Alex.

Bouchard, Gianna.

Research Call Number

MWET 16-1802