Through an examination of examples from performance, museum displays and popular culture that stage the body as a specimen, Performing Specimens maps the relations between these performative acts and the medical practices of collecting, storing and showing specimens in a variety of modes and contexts. Moving from an examination of the medical and historical contexts of specimen display in the museum and the anatomy theatre to contemporary performance, Gianna Bouchard engages with ...

This edited collection focuses on performance practice and analysis that engages with medical and biomedical sciences. After locating the 'biologization' of theatre at the turn of the twentieth century, it examines a range of contemporary practices that respond to understandings of the human body as revealed by biomedical science.In bringing together a variety of analytical perspectives, the book draws on scholars, scientists, artists and practices that are at the forefront of curr...

Successful acting must reflect a society’s current beliefs. The men and women who developed each new technique were convinced that previous methods were not equal to the full challenges of their time and place, and the techniques in this book have been adapted to current needs in order to continue to be successful methods for training actors. The actor’s journey is an individual one, and the actor seeks a form, or a variety of forms, of training that will assist in unlocking his own cr...

Medical transcription is a quickly growing career field. College or training for this job is relatively short. At the end of training, a test is required of the individual in order to determine if they grasped the skills properly. A medical transcription guide can be a useful tool for these tests. A medical transcription guide will help students review the material they learned. The guide will show a brief overview of skills ranging from listening to recordings to recording them.

Psychophysical Acting is a direct and vital address to the demands of contemporary theatre on today’s actor. Drawing on over thirty years of intercultural experience, Phillip Zarrilli aims to equip actors with practical and conceptual tools with which to approach their work. Areas of focus include:an historical overview of a psychophysical approach to acting from Stanislavski to the presentacting as an ‘energetics’ of performance, applied to a wide range of...

Tendon Regeneration: Understanding Tissue Physiology and Development to Engineer Functional Substitutes is the first book to highlight the multi-disciplinary nature of this specialized field and the importance of collaboration between medical and engineering laboratories in the development of tissue-oriented products for tissue engineering and regenerative medicine (TERM) strategies. Beginning with a foundation in developmental biology, the book explores physiology, pathology, and surgical...

Exam Facts presents the NCLEX-PN Exam Study Guide. Get the Facts you need to learn what you need to know to help you pass the NCLEX Nursing exam.. Just the Facts, no fluff material.Danielle Tanner is a nursing instructor with a 22-year background in Nursing. She began as a RN Nurse who later became a Nurse Practitioner. She then became a certified a College Professor at many Universities, who has taught Nursing Classes all over the US, Canada and the UK. Danielle is committed to pr...

Problem-based learning (PBL) has excited interest among educators around the world for several decades. Among the most notable applications of PBL is the approach taken at the Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life sciences (FHML) at Maastricht University, the Netherlands. Starting in 1974 as a medical school, the faculty embarked on the innovative pathway of problem-based learning, trying to establish a medical training program which applied recent insights of education which would be bette...

An ambitious interpretation of the critically celebrated and widely popular crime drama Breaking Bad , this book argues that not only should the series be understood as a show that revolves around the dramatic stakes of dignity, but that to do so reveals - in new ways - central aspects of serial television drama as an art form.

This book offers a timely discussion about the interventions and tensions between two contested and contentious fields, performance and phenomenology, with international case studies that map an emerging twenty-first century terrain of critical and performance practice. Building on the foundational texts of both fields that established the performativity of perception and cognition, Performance and Phenomenology continues a tradition that considers experience to be the foundation ...

This book is the most complete source on the nations medical school early admission programs. These programs allow informed and motivated students to apply directly to medical school while applying to colleges, all directly from high school. These programs are hidden gems that come in varying shapes and sizes, ranging from six to eight years, designed to attract bright students interested in becoming a physician. Their somewhat ambiguous nature is brought to light in detail. Their various ...

This is the first volume to provide a detailed introduction to some of the main areas of research and practice in the interdisciplinary field of art and neuroscience. With contributions from neuroscientists, theatre scholars and artists from seven countries, it offers a rich and rigorous array of perspectives as a springboard to further exploration. Divided into four parts, each prefaced by an expert editorial introduction, it examines:* Theatre as a space of relationships: a neuro...