Memoirs of Well-Being

Memoirs of Well-Being
Author: Tanja Reiffenrath
Publisher: transcript Verlag
Total Pages: 321
Release: 2016-05-31
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 3839435463
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As the body politics of life writing in the United States change, illness and disability memoirs receive considerable attention. Although these narratives are framed by a lack of health, they abundantly present health and do so beyond its binary relationship to the pathological. This book departs from previous scholarship by bringing into focus the writers' representations of cure, recovery, and healing as well as their reluctance to bring closure to their narratives and align their stories with traditional notions of health. These memoirs thus partake in the construction of alternative narratives of illness and disability.

Medicine, Healing and Performance

Medicine, Healing and Performance
Author: Effie Gemi-Iordanou
Publisher: Oxbow Books
Total Pages: 199
Release: 2014-02-13
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 1782971580
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Whether it is the binding of shattered bones or the creation of herbal remedies, human agency is a central feature of the healing process. Both archaeological and anthropological research has contributed much to our understanding of the performative aspects of medicine. The papers contained in this volume, based on a session conducted at the 2010 Theoretical Archaeology Conference, take a multi-disciplinary approach to the topic, addressing such issues as the cultural conception of disease; the impact of gender roles on healing strategies; the possibilities afforded by syncretism; the relationship between material culture and the body; and the role played by the active agency of the sick.

The Scar of Visibility

The Scar of Visibility
Author: Petra Küppers
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Total Pages: 314
Release: 2007
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9781452909158
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In The Scar of Visibility, Petra Kuppers examines the use of medical imagery practices in contemporary art, as well as different arts of everyday life. Among the works she investigates are the controversial Body Worlds exhibition of plastinized corpses, films like David Cronenbergs Crash that fetishize body wounds, representations of the AIDS virus on CSI: Crime Scene Investigations, and the paintings of outsider artist Martin Ram'rez.

Pharmacology for Health Professionals - eBook

Pharmacology for Health Professionals - eBook
Author: Kathleen Knights
Publisher: Elsevier Health Sciences
Total Pages: 1069
Release: 2018-09-26
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 0729586715
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- All content revised and updated with more succinct chapters reduced by approximately 15% - A suite of animations support readers' understanding of common drug interactions - Key Points boxes provide a snapshot of important information to reinforce readers' learning - Updated drug names to align with international harmonisation of medicines information and recommendations by the Therapeutic Goods Administration - National and international guidelines are referenced - Expanded 'Mechanism of Action' for some drugs and drug classes - Update of therapeutic areas with new drug classes, e.g. cancer chemotherapy, antivirals and cardiac drugs - New information on clinically relevant drug interactions - Now includes an eBook with all print purchases

Re-performance, Mourning and Death

Re-performance, Mourning and Death
Author: Sarah Julius
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 206
Release: 2021-10-30
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 3030847748
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This book examines the recent trend for re-performance and how this impacts on the relationship between live performance and death. Focusing specifically on examples of performance art the text analyses the relationship between performance, re-performance and death, comparing the process of re-performance to the process of mourning and arguing that both of these are processes of adaptation and survival. Using a variety of case studies, including performances by Ron Athey, Julie Tolentino, Martin O’Brien, Sheree Rose, Jo Spence and Hannah Wilke, the book explores performances which can be considered acts of re-performance, as well as performances which examine some of the critical concerns of re-performance, including notions of illness, loss and death. By drawing upon both philosophical and performance studies discourses the text takes a novel approach to the relationship between re-performance, mourning and death.

The Methuen Drama Companion to Performance Art

The Methuen Drama Companion to Performance Art
Author: Bertie Ferdman
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2020-02-20
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1350057592
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The Methuen Drama Companion to Performance Art offers a comprehensive guide to the major issues and interdisciplinary debates concerning performance in art contexts that have developed over the last decade. It understands performance art as an institutional, cultural, and economic phenomenon rather than as a label or object. Following the ever-increasing institutionalization and mainstreaming of performance, the book's chapters identify a marked change in the economies and labor practices surrounding performance art, and explore how this development is reflective of capitalist approaches to art and event production. Embracing what we perceive to be the 'oxymoronic status' of performance art-where it is simultaneously precarious and highly profitable-the essays in this book map the myriad gestures and radical possibilities of this extreme contradiction. This Companion adopts an interdisciplinary perspective to present performance art's legacies and its current practices. It brings together specially commissioned essays from leading innovative scholars from a wide range of approaches including art history, visual and performance studies, dance and theatre scholarship in order to provide a comprehensive and multifocal overview of the emerging research trends and methodologies devoted to performance art.