Theatre and medicine /

Garner, Stanton B., 1955-

Theatre and medicine / Stanton B. Garner, Jr. - x, 89 pages ; 18 cm. - Theatre & . - Theatre&. .

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Includes bibliographic references and index.

Bodies -- Contagion -- Practitioners and patients -- Institutions.

"Theatre and Medicine offers a tour of this interdisciplinary terrain. Organized into four distinct topics, each represents crucial ways of understanding the theatre-medicine relationship. From discussions on the somatic underpinnings of the body that medicine and theatre take as their subject through to the historical association of theatre and contagion, and the pervasive role of doctors and the practitioners of alternative medicine in Western theatre and role of patients on and off stage. Together, this brief study considers the institutional contexts of theatre's medical performances in the early twenty-first century"--

9781350330153 1350330159

60002491401

2022015797


Medicine and theater.
Performing arts medicine.
Medicine in literature.
Theater and society.
Human body (Philosophy)
Human body (Philosophy)
Medicine in literature.
Performing arts medicine.
Theater and society.

PN2041.M43 / G37 2023