Medicine as Theatre, Theatre as Medicine

Marlene Goldman is Professor of English at the University of Toronto, Canada.Alice Flaherty is Associate Professor of neurology and psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, USA.Lawrence Switzky is Associate Professor of English at the University of Toronto, Canada.

• List of IllustrationsList of ContributorsAcknowledgementsIntroductionSection 1: Fashioning the Doctor’s CharacterChapter 1 – Authenticity, Ritual, and Medical PerformanceA Conversation between Timothy McGinnis and Arthur KleinmanChapter 2 – Medical Training and Character Development: The Hidden Curriculum in Learning to ActDeborah Ocholi (McMaster University, Canada)Chapter 3 – Puppetry and Medical PerformanceAn Interview with Rachel WarrSection 2: Patients and the Art of IllnessChapter 4 – Performing the Art of Illness: How Patients Can Ail Well and Caregivers Can HelpAlice Flaherty (Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, USA)Chapter 5 – The Ensemble Arts of Healing and Learning: Forum Theatre and Pre-TextsDoris Sommer (Harvard University, USA)Chapter 6 – Rehearsing Failure: What Theatre Can Teach Medicine About Being PresentBianca Dahl (University of Toronto Scarborough, Canada) and Philip Davy McKee (Independent scholar, Canada)Section 3: CaregiversChapter 7 – Nursing Tactics: Voice, Touch, ScentAn Interview with Adele VogelsangChapter 8 – What Part of the Stage Are You Standing On?An Interview with George AndersonChapter 9 – “I Like to Act Vicariously on Behalf of People”An Interview with Marcus CoatesSection 4: The Pasts of Performative MedicineChapter 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 PhrenologyMarlis Schweitzer (York University, Canada) and Sara Masciotra-Milstein (Independent scholar, UK)Section 5: Performative Medicine in Contemporary Theatre and DramaChapter 13 – Bedside MannerCorrine Botz (John Jay College of Criminal Justice, USA)Chapter 14 – Theatre for Social Change in the Dementia ContextA Conversation between Pia Kontos and Sherry DupuisChapter 15 – Beyond the Cost of Care: Connection, Disability, and Embodied Reciprocity in Martyna Majok’s Cost of LivingKatherine Williams (University of Toronto, Canada)Chapter 16 – “Knots That I Can’t Seem to Easily Undo”: Playwright Matthew MacKenzie on Making Illness Dramatically InterestingAn Interview with Matthew MacKenzieConclusion – A Performative Future for HealthcareIndex