New Perspectives on Medical Clowning
eBook - ePub

New Perspectives on Medical Clowning

Clown Doctors in Covid-19, Wartime, and the Everyday

  1. 88 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

New Perspectives on Medical Clowning

Clown Doctors in Covid-19, Wartime, and the Everyday

Book details
Table of contents
Citations

About This Book

Taking the recent coronavirus pandemic as a starting point, this book presents and analyzes new research around medical clowning in hospitals, from social media use to the impact on the hospitalized child in later life.

This innovative book begins with an overview of the work of medical clowns. It discusses the idea of humor as a mechanism related to the revolution in language and human consciousness, and makes a connection between humor and anxiety, exploring how this can be mobilized to support hospitalized patients. There is extensive examination of medical clowning to strengthen coping skills and promote wellbeing in the time of Covid-19, where loneliness and isolation loomed large and anxieties were high. Subsequent chapters explore the role of medical clowning in wartime and at time of natural disasters, the experiences of children some time after their experience of hospitalization and clowning, and the role of social media and medical clowns in community building.

This book is a fascinating contribution to the literature on medical clowning. It is of interest to researchers, practitioners, and lecturers in medical clowning, play in healthcare, nursing, medicine, and performance studies.

Frequently asked questions

Simply head over to the account section in settings and click on “Cancel Subscription” - it’s as simple as that. After you cancel, your membership will stay active for the remainder of the time you’ve paid for. Learn more here.
At the moment all of our mobile-responsive ePub books are available to download via the app. Most of our PDFs are also available to download and we're working on making the final remaining ones downloadable now. Learn more here.
Both plans give you full access to the library and all of Perlego’s features. The only differences are the price and subscription period: With the annual plan you’ll save around 30% compared to 12 months on the monthly plan.
We are an online textbook subscription service, where you can get access to an entire online library for less than the price of a single book per month. With over 1 million books across 1000+ topics, we’ve got you covered! Learn more here.
Look out for the read-aloud symbol on your next book to see if you can listen to it. The read-aloud tool reads text aloud for you, highlighting the text as it is being read. You can pause it, speed it up and slow it down. Learn more here.
Yes, you can access New Perspectives on Medical Clowning by Amnon Raviv in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Medizin & Medizinische Theorie, Praxis & Referenz. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2023
ISBN
9781000897500
Edition
1
Topic
Medizin
Subtopic
Medizinische Theorie, Praxis & Referenz

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title Page
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Dedication
  6. Table of Contents
  7. List of figures
  8. Preface – How I became a medical clown
  9. Foreword
  10. 1 Humor, consciousness, and anxiety
  11. 2 The birth of a new profession
  12. 3 Medical clowning during Covid
  13. 4 Medical clowning in wartime
  14. 5 Qualitative research on clowning in pediatrics units
  15. 6 Clowning around with cancer online: the impact of social media on the interaction between the medical clown and oncology patients
  16. 7 Medical clowning and music in the wards for chronic and serious illnesses
  17. 8 Rethinking the training of medical clowns and the basics of the profession
  18. Index