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Performance and the Medical Body
Contributor(s): Mermikides, Alex (Editor), Bouchard, Gianna (Editor), Shaughnessy, Nicola (Editor)
ISBN: 1472570782     ISBN-13: 9781472570789
Publisher: Methuen Drama
OUR PRICE:   $158.40  
Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats
Published: February 2016
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BISAC Categories:
- Performing Arts | Theater - History & Criticism
- Medical | Research
Series: Performance and Science: Interdisciplinary Dialogues
Physical Information: 0.63" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" (1.02 lbs) 272 pages
 
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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, scientific and academic 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.

Contributor Bio(s): Mermikides, Alex: - Dr Alex Mermikides is Senior Lecturer in Drama at Kingston University, London, UK. Her research interest is in contemporary performance-making and she is co-editor of Devising in Process (2010).Bouchard, Gianna: - Dr Gianna Bouchard is Principal Lecturer in Drama at Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge. Her research focuses on contemporary theatre and performance in relation to medical science, live art, critical theory and feminist practice. Her work has been published in Performance Research, Contemporary Theatre Review and various edited collections.Shaughnessy, Nicola: -

Nicola Shaughnessy is Professor of Performance at the University of Kent. She is Director of the Research Centre for Cognition, Kinesthetics and Performance and is leading the AHRC funded project 'Imagining Autism.'
She is the author of Applying Performance (2012), Gertrude Stein (2007) and co-editor of Margaret Woffington (2008).

Lutterbie, John: - Professor John Lutterbie is Chair of the Departments of Art and of Theatre Arts at Stony Brook University, USA, and is on the board of directors of the Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas.