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Performance and the medical body /
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 hum...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London :
Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc,
2016.
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| Colección: | Performance and science.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- List of Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Part One: Performing the Medical
- 1 A Cabinet of (Medical) Performance Curiosities
- 2 The Diagnostic Gaze: Nineteenth-Century Contexts for Medicine and Performance
- 3 The Bluer Flowers of the Medical Theatre: Visiting with Aliens, Poppies and Antipodean Spas
- 4 Performing Surgery
- Part Two: Performing Patients
- 5 The Patient Performer: Embodied Pathography in Contemporary Productions
- 6 Fun with Cancer Patients: The Affect of Cancer
- 7 DOC: The Narrative Performance of Expertise
- 8 Cough, Bitch, Cough: Reflections on Sickness and the Coughing Body in Performance
- Part Three: Performing Body Parts
- 9 The Pain of 'Specimenhood'
- 10 Clod Ensemble, An Anatomie in Four Quarters Rehearsal Notes
- 11 On the Emergent Properties of Death: When Words Fall Apart
- 12 Performing the Microscopic: Beyond Eye and Brain
- 13 Copy, Cut, Paste
- Humans (Re- )Printed: Lynn Hershman Leeson's The Infinity Engine
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index.