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Medicine as Theatre, Theatre as Medicine

Contributor(s): Goldman, Marlene (Editor), Cook, Amy (Editor), Flaherty, Alice (Editor), Switzky, Lawrence (Editor), Lutterbie, John (Editor), Shaughnessy, Nicola (Editor)

ISBN: 9781350460720

Publisher: Methuen Drama

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Pub Date: June 11, 2026

Lexile Code: 0000

Features: Dust Cover

Target Age Group: NA to NA

Physical Info: 0.88" H x 9.61" L x 6.69" W ( 1.74 lbs) 368 pages

Series: Performance and Science: Interdisciplinary Dialogues

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Description: Responding to a need among health humanities scholars and clinicians to grapple with medicine's longstanding relationship to theatre, this open access book argues for deep connections between theatre and medicine which guide insights in both disciplines.

Brief description: Marlene Goldman is Professor of English at the University of Toronto, Canada. She is a writer, filmmaker, and interdisciplinary scholar, co-editor of Critical Humanities and Ageing: Forging Interdisciplinary Dialogues (2022) and author of Performing Shame: Simulating Stigmatized Minds and Bodies (2023). Her website is https: //marlenegoldman.ca/.

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