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Still the Best Medicine, Even in a War Zone: My Work As a Medical Clown
- TDR: The Drama Review
- The MIT Press
- Volume 56, Number 2, Summer 2012 (T214)
- pp. 169-177
- Article
- Additional Information
In recent years medical clowning has been an effective tool used in the treatment of people suffering from acute and post-traumatic stress disorder in war zones and in the wake of natural disasters. Clown Doctors in the Barzilai Medical Center in southern Israel, near the Gaza border, encounter ASD/PTSD patients from both sides of the conflict.