Download or read book Theatre and Medicine written by Stanton B. Garner, Jr. and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2023-01-12 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Theatre and Medicine offers a tour of this interdisciplinary terrain. Organized into four distinct topics, each represents crucial ways of understanding the theatre-medicine relationship. From discussions on the somatic underpinnings of the body that medicine and theatre take as their subject through to the historical association of theatre and contagion, and the pervasive role of doctors and the practitioners of alternative medicine in Western theatre and role of patients on and off stage. Together, this brief study considers the institutional contexts of theatre's medical performances in the early twenty-first century.