Items related to Medical Readers' Theater: A Guide and Scripts
Synopsis
We have all had experiences with sickness, care giving, physicians, medical emergencies, hospitals, and doctors' offices. Health concerns are not solely the domain of medical students, physicians, or nurses - we all deal with our personal well-being and the health of our loved ones on a daily basis. Sometimes these health problems cause us to consider larger social and ethical issues. How do we respond and relate to such matters? In order to help both lay people and medical professionals consider various health care issues, East Carolina University's Brody School of Medicine developed a medical readers' theatre programme. Compiled for the first time in a single text, this book provides a vehicle for those who wish to engage in discussions among citizens and professionals about important, topical issues in contemporary medicine. Consisting of 14 readers' theatre scripts, a step-by-step guide to performing readers' theatre, and questions for post-performance discussions, this volume utilizes stories by William Carlos Williams, Susan Onthank Mates, Arthur Conan Doyle, Pearl Buck, and many more. Physician/patient relationships, organ donation, chronic illness, race and ethnicity, death and dying, and ageing are just a few of the topics covered in the text. This book can be used in classrooms, hospitals, libraries, or other community settings where citizens can consider views on issues of common concern in the medical world.
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Review
"Medical Readers' Theater is a collection of skillfully rendered, easy-to-perform dramatizations of citizens' encounters with health professionals. Savitt's generosity in making his work available to us, with guides for production and discussion, is a gift that will educate and move all those who experience these plays-as audience or participant." -Suzanne Poirier, Ph.D., director of Medical Humanities, University of Illinois College of Medicine
About the Author
Todd Savitt teaches the history of medicine and medical ethics in the Department of Medical Humanities at East Carolina University's Brody School of Medicine and coordinates ECU's Medical Readers' Theater program. He is the author of Medicine and Slavery: The Diseases and Health Care of Blacks in Antebellum Virginia.
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- PublisherUniversity of Iowa Press
- Publication date1969
- ISBN 10 0877457980
- ISBN 13 9780877457985
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages240
- EditorSavitt Todd L.
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