Clowns and Jokers Can Heal Us Comedy and Medicine
From the cover. Why do we tell jokes about dcotors and hospitals? Why do patients often initiate humor with healthcare workers? Howard Carter presents and analyzes humor inside and outside of the hospital. He argues that rituals of comedy affirm our humanity, aid healing, and should be routinely par...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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San Francisco, CA :
University of California Medical Humanities Consortium
2011.
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| Colección: | Perspectives in medical humanities.
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009845038706719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Comedy, a cancer patient, a clown
- Vonnie, the hospital clown
- Party time! A ritual of black humor in the emergency room and one forty-year-old joke
- From comforting clowns to ironic jokers : the many kinds and purposes of comedy
- Talking past taboo : when language mentions the unmentionable
- Imagine that! Images of the regrettably mechanical body
- Humour characters and their stories
- "Take this, you moron!" : The joys and sorrows of Freudian attacks
- Aging and death : we're all in the same damn boat
- Brunhilde blesses the ICU and other hospital humor
- Rabid fluffy, the emergency room scapedog
- "Smile when you say that, mister" : conclusions about clowns and jokers.
