{"product_id":"performance-medicine-and-the-human-alex-mermikides-9781350235991","title":"Performance, Medicine and the Human","description":"Performance and medicine are now converging in unprecedented ways. London's theatres reveal an appetite for medical themes - John Boyega is subjected to medical experiments in Jack Thorne's \u003ci\u003eWoycek, \u003c\/i\u003e while Royal National Theatre produces a novel musical about cancer. At the same time, performance-makers seek to improve our health, using dance to increase mobility for those living with Parkinson's disease or performance magic as physiotherapy for children with paraplegia. \u003ci\u003ePerformance, Medicine and the Human\u003c\/i\u003e surveys this emerging field, providing case studies based on the author's own experience of devising medical performances in collaboration with cancer patients, biomedical scientists and healthcare educators. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eExamining contemporary medical performance reveals an ancient preoccupation, evident in the practices of both theatre and healing, with the human. Like medicine, theatre puts the human on display in order to understand and, perhaps, alleviate the suffering inherent to the human condition. Medical practice constitutes a sort of theatre in which doctors, nurses and patients perform their humaneness and humanity. This insight has much to offer at a time when established notions of the human are being radically rethought, partly in response to emerging biomedical knowledge. \u003ci\u003ePerformance, Medicine and the Human\u003c\/i\u003eargues that contemporary medical performance can shed new light on what it means to be human - and what we mean by the human, the humane, humanism and the humanities - at a time when these notions are being fundamentally rethought. Its insights are relevant to scholars in performance studies, the medical humanities, healthcare education and beyond\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Alex Mermikides\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1350235997\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781350235991\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Bloomsbury Publishing PLC\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/26\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 224\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.58lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.47d","brand":"Alex Mermikides","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43943684735231,"sku":"9781350235991","price":42.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_b92e07d8-ca39-4f41-9bc1-ed705bc4c9a3.jpg?v=1681499481","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/performance-medicine-and-the-human-alex-mermikides-9781350235991","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}