Standing Ovation
Performing Social Science Research About Cancer
Seiten
2002
Altamira Press
978-0-7591-0146-3 (ISBN)
Altamira Press
978-0-7591-0146-3 (ISBN)
A case study in performance ethnography in which focus group transcripts become the basis for a stage presentation about women with breast cancer.
Is theatrical performance an effective way to communicate the results of social science research to health practitioners and the public? Ross Gray and Christina Sinding describe how their studies about metastatic breast cancer and prostate cancer were transformed into Handle with Care? and No Big Deal?, plays conveying the cancer experience to physicians and community audiences. People with cancer were among the actors, and the words they spoke were taken from individual and group interviews and from the dialogue between cancer survivors, researchers and dramatists that informed the script. The book tells the story of these two productions, outlining the theoretical basis of research as performance art, the process and problems of turning field notes into scripts, the delights and traumas of performance, and the results of research-based theatre experiments on audiences and participants alike. With the book is an 80-minute VHS videotape showing a performance of each drama.
Is theatrical performance an effective way to communicate the results of social science research to health practitioners and the public? Ross Gray and Christina Sinding describe how their studies about metastatic breast cancer and prostate cancer were transformed into Handle with Care? and No Big Deal?, plays conveying the cancer experience to physicians and community audiences. People with cancer were among the actors, and the words they spoke were taken from individual and group interviews and from the dialogue between cancer survivors, researchers and dramatists that informed the script. The book tells the story of these two productions, outlining the theoretical basis of research as performance art, the process and problems of turning field notes into scripts, the delights and traumas of performance, and the results of research-based theatre experiments on audiences and participants alike. With the book is an 80-minute VHS videotape showing a performance of each drama.
Ross Gray is Co-Director of the Psychosocial & Behavioural Research Unit at Toronto-Sunnybrook Regional Cancer Centre and Assistant Professor, Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Toronto. Christina Sinding is a social scientist with the Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation Community Research Initiative and a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Toronto.
1 Acknowledgements/ 1: And Now Introducing…/ 2: Social Science Meets Performance/ 3: The Meaning of "Metastatic"/ 4: They Had to Cry/ 5: Scripting/ 6: Stepping into the Spotlights/ 7: We Behaved Badly/ 8: Blocking Notes/ 9: Travelling, Unraveling/
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 14.7.2002 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Ethnographic Alternatives |
| Verlagsort | California |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 132 x 216 mm |
| Gewicht | 472 g |
| Themenwelt | Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Onkologie |
| Medizin / Pharmazie ► Physiotherapie / Ergotherapie ► Ergotherapie | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-7591-0146-9 / 0759101469 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-7591-0146-3 / 9780759101463 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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