Performance and the Medical Body

Introduction - Alex Mermikides (Kingston University, UK) and Gianna Bouchard (Anglia Ruskin University, UK)

Part 1: Performing the Medical
1. A Cabinet of (Medical) Performance Curiosities - Professor Jennifer Parker-Starbuck (University of Roehampton, UK)
2. The Diagnostic Gaze: Nineteenth Century Contexts for Medicine and Performance - Associate Professor Kirsten Shepherd-Barr (University of Oxford, UK)
3. The Bluer Flowers of the Medical Theatre: Visiting with Aliens, Poppies, and Antipodean Spas - Professor Petra Kuppers (University of Michigan, USA)
4. Performing Surgery - Professor Roger Kneebone (Imperial College London, UK)

Part 2: Performing Patients
5. DOC: The narrative performance of expertise - P. Solomon Lennox (Northumbria University, UK) and Fiona Pettit (independent scholar, UK)
6. Cough, Bitch, Cough: Reflections on Sickness and the Coughing Body in Performance - Martin O'Brien (freelance artist, UK)
7. Fun with Cancer Patients: The Affect of Cancer - Brian Lobel (University of Chichester, UK)
8. The Patient Performer: Embodied Pathography in Contemporary Productions - Emma Brodzinski (Royal Holloway, University of London, UK)

Part 3: Performing Body Parts
9. Clod Ensemble: An Anatomie in Four Quarters. Some rehearsal notes - Suzy Willson (Clod Ensemble)
10.The Pain of Specimenhood - Gianna Bouchard (Anglia Ruskin University, UK)
11.On the emergent properties of death: When words fall apart - Helen Pynor (freelance artist, Australia)
12.Performing the Microscopic: beyond eye and brain - Alex Mermikides (Kingston University, UK)
13.Copy, Cut, Paste - Humans (Re-)Printed: Lynn Hershman Leeson's The Infinity Engine (2014-) - Professor Gabriella Giannachi (University of Exeter, UK)
Notes
Bibliography
Notes on Contributors
Index