Routledge Companion to Performance and Medicine

<p><i>The Routledge Companion to Performance and Medicine</i> addresses the proliferation of practices that bridge performance and medicine in the contemporary moment.</p><p>The scope of this book's broad range of chapters includes medicine and illness as the subject of drama and plays; the performativity of illness and the medical encounter; the roles and choreographies of the clinic; the use of theatrical techniques such as simulation and role-play in medical training; and modes of performance engaged in public health campaigns health education projects and health-related activism. The book encompasses some of these diverse practices and discourses that emerge at the interface between medicine and performance with a particular emphasis on practices of performance.</p><p>This collection is a vital reference resource for scholars of contemporary performance; medical humanities; and the variety of interdisciplinary fields and debates around performance medicine health and their overlapping collaborations.</p><p>Chapter 18 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution CC-BY 4.0 license.</p>