Gianna Bouchard is Head of the Department of Drama and Theatre Arts at the University of Birmingham, UK.Alex Mermikides is D'Oyly Carte Senior Lecturer in Arts and Health at King's College London, UK.

• Part 1: Symptoms1. HIV/AIDS on Stage in Singapore: mass media and stigmatising discoursesApril Thant Aung2. The AIDS Crisis, Bereavement and Allopathographic PerformanceEllen Redling3. The Uber-Performing Uterus of Henrietta Lacks and Eve Ensler: ecologies of the womb in Mojisola Adebayo’s Family Tree and Eve Ensler’s In the Body of the WorldVerónica Rodríguez4. Places to (Mis)carry: scoring diffracted narratives of multiple miscarriageJoanne ‘Bob’ Whalley5. Dancing with Imagined Memories: variant identities and new rehabilitative formsSarah-Mace Dennis6. Overcoming Stigma: performing the workplace experiences of people living with epilepsy in FranceBrenda Bogaert7. Naturalist Hauntings: staging psychiatry in Anatomy of a Suicide, People Places Things and Blue/OrangeLeah Sidi8. Performing Death on the Stage and in the HospitalEmily RussellPart 2: Diagnosis9. It’s Funny Because It’s True: Dr. Knock, Michel Foucault, and the birth of a satireKatherine Burke10. Robert Icke’s The Doctor: exploring modern medicine through Arthur Schnitzler’s Professor BernhardiJudith Beniston11. The Excess and the Erased: dramaturgical notes on performing care in medical educationJames Dalton and Claire Hooker12. Hidden Dress Codes: wearing the role of physicianGretchen A. Case13. Doctors as Singers of Tales: medical performance in the Homeric traditionAlan Bleakley and Robert Marshall14. The Performance of SurgerySteve Reid, Laurie Rauch and Alp Numanoglu15. Matters of the Heart: the orchestration of hands in cardiac surgeryChristina Lammer, Tamar Tembeck and Wilfried Wisser16. BecomingLucinda Coleman17. Building Common Fictions: practising dramaturgy as mediation in three medical performancesPauline Bouchet18. Performing Gratitude: a case study of the clap-for-carers movementGiskin DayPart 3: Care and Cure19. Performance, Community and Disability in Gujarat: reflections in hindsightShilpa Das20. Quiet Activism: a space to dareKatharine E. Low21. Rally Against Measles: performances for community mobilisation in LebanonSally Souraya22. Speaking to Power, Speaking to People: responsive practice in relation to maternity issues in Western KenyaJane Plastow23. Making a Drama out of a Crisis: using theatre to co-research mental health literacy in KeralaAndy Barrett, Chandradasan and Michael Wilson24. Narrative Rx: storytelling’s healing capacities in public healthYewande O. Addie, David O. Fakunle and Jeffrey Pufahl25. Drama in Mental Health Care: the development and use of schizodrama in the Brazilian psychiatric support serviceCinira Magali Fortuna, Felipe Lima dos Santos, Jorge Antônio Nunes Bichuetti, Maria de Fátima Oliveira and Silvia Matumoto26. Illness and the One-to-One EncounterBrian Lobel and Emily Underwood-Lee27. Care Aesthetics: the art, aesthetics and performance of health careJames Thompson28. An Art of Contingency: producing biosocial theatreSimon ParryPart 4: Side Effects29. At the Needle Point: theatre and vaccine scepticismStanton B. Garner, Jr.30. Constructing a Fictional Skin Disease: pandemic as a political allegory in The ItchDeniz Başar31. Xenograftie (Artificial Sorrow)Traci Kelly32. Hearing Voices: the creation and staging of a play based on interviews with psychiatric patientsClare Summerskill33. Depth, Intimacy, and Dissection: Howard Barker’s critique of medicine in He StumbledAlireza Fakhrkonandeh and Yiğit Sümbül34. Staging Corpses: reanimating medical history through puppetryLaura Purcell-Gates35. Performing the Pill: contemporary feminist performance exploring the side effects of hormonal contraceptionAlex Mermikides and Katie Paterson36. The Gift of Life: organ transplantation and surrogacy on the stageGianna BouchardPart 5: Experiments37. Performing Mental Wellbeing in Conversations with AI ChatbotsAdelina Ong38. You are My Territory and I am Your ExplorerLiz Orton39. Discipline and Askēsis: training, spiritual philosophy and dance in Russell Maliphant’s choreographic practiceKélina Gotman40. Tooth Fairies for Adults: performing ritualHelen Pynor41. Waiting Room: material moments of medicine as performanceAnnja Neumann with Uta Baldauf42.‘Statecraft’ as ‘Stagecraft’: performing public health and the production of the socially distanced spectatorFreya Verlander43. Active Ingredients: notes on Clod Ensemble’s PlaceboSuzy Willson44. To Enter a Place of Pain: the work of Eugenie LeeBec Dean