List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Foreword by Professor Alan Bleakely
1. Introduction: performance, medicine and the human
2. Gazes and stages: looking at bodies in theatre and medicine
3. Playing doctors: the ‘humanistic physician’ breaks bad news
4. Chimeric Bodies: other selves in pathographic performance
Taking care: cultivating compassion in nursing and applied performance
5. Conclusion: performing encounters and entanglements
Notes
Bibliography
Index