The Routledge Companion to Performance and Medicine

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.

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