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My Body, Their Story: Performing Medicine
- Canadian Theatre Review
- University of Toronto Press
- Volume 146, Spring 2011
- pp. 55-60
- 10.1353/ctr.2011.0031
- Article
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Actors hired to play patients in medical-educational contexts are not only subjected to the medical gaze, but are also often subjected to emotionally and physically demanding roles. Laura Jayne Nelles asks how the actor can create a safe "container" in the often blurred boundaries between acting and not-acting.