Medicine as Theatre, Theatre as Medicine

List of Illustrations
List of Contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Section 1: Fashioning the Doctor's Character
Chapter 1 - Authenticity, Ritual, and Medical Performance
A Conversation between Timothy McGinnis and Arthur Kleinman
Chapter 2 - Medical Training and Character Development: The Hidden Curriculum in Learning to Act
Deborah Ocholi (McMaster University, Canada)
Chapter 3 - Puppetry and Medical Performance
An Interview with Rachel Warr
Section 2: Patients and the Art of Illness
Chapter 4 - Performing the Art of Illness: How Patients Can Ail Well and Caregivers Can Help
Alice Flaherty (Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, USA)
Chapter 5 - The Ensemble Arts of Healing and Learning: Forum Theatre and Pre-Texts
Doris Sommer (Harvard University, USA)
Chapter 6 - Rehearsing Failure: What Theatre Can Teach Medicine About Being Present
Bianca Dahl (University of Toronto Scarborough, Canada) and Philip Davy McKee (Independent scholar, Canada)
Section 3: Caregivers
Chapter 7 - Nursing Tactics: Voice, Touch, Scent
An Interview with Adele Vogelsang
Chapter 8 - What Part of the Stage Are You Standing On?
An Interview with George Anderson
Chapter 9 - "I Like to Act Vicariously on Behalf of People"
An Interview with Marcus Coates
Section 4: The Pasts of Performative Medicine
Chapter 10 - Medical Influences on Modern Theatre and Theatrical Influences on Modern Medicine with Is There a Doctor in the House? Medicine and the Making of Modern Drama (2008)
An Interview with Stanton B. Garner, Jr.
Chapter 11 - "250,000 Unnecessary Deaths": Theatricalizing the National Health Care Debate in Broadway's Medicine Show (1940)
Kirsten E. Shepherd (St Catherine's College, Oxford University, UK)
Chapter 12 - Performance and Medical Education: Bridging the Gap Between Public and Private Phrenology
Marlis Schweitzer (York University, Canada) and Sara Masciotra-Milstein (Independent scholar, UK)
Section 5: Performative Medicine in Contemporary Theatre and Drama
Chapter 13 - Bedside Manner
Corrine Botz (John Jay College of Criminal Justice, USA)
Chapter 14 - Theatre for Social Change in the Dementia Context
A Conversation between Pia Kontos and Sherry Dupuis
Chapter 15 - Beyond the Cost of Care: Connection, Disability, and Embodied Reciprocity in Martyna Majok's Cost of Living
Katherine Williams (University of Toronto, Canada)
Chapter 16 - "Knots That I Can't Seem to Easily Undo": Playwright Matthew MacKenzie on Making Illness Dramatically Interesting
An Interview with Matthew MacKenzie
Conclusion - A Performative Future for Healthcare

Index