From Calcedonies to Orchids: Plays Promoting Humanity in Health Policy - Softcover

Nisker, Jeff

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1927403367 ISBN 13: 9781927403365

Verlag: Iguana Books, 2012

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Jeff Nisker has been writing plays since the early 1990s. He did this in order to bring audiences to the position of persons immersed in the vortex of new scientific capacity and its social implications. Jeff ultimately aims to promote humanity in health policy development. From Calcedonies to Orchids: Plays Promoting Humanity in Health Policy is a collection of plays based on Jeff's experiences, those experiences shared with him, and interviews conducted by Jeff. His first play, Orchids, explores the concepts of "health" and "enhancement," "disease" and "difference," in the new world of reproductive genetics in which he was immersed as a scientist and clinician. Sarah's Daughters suggests opening the conversation of genetic risk, rather than allowing its continued submergence in secrets of fear of genetic discrimination. A Child on Her Mind examines becoming a mother in the new reproductive technology age and juxtaposes the beauty of becoming a mother with the ugliness of societal impellations, socio-economic inequalities, and coercive relationships. Camouflage stimulates the public discussion of psychological intimate partner violence, a health issue hidden by a lack of physical bruises. Philip asks where lines should be drawn separating a child's intellectual capacity from chronological age in health policies. Jeff was inspired to write his newest play in this collection, Calcedonies, when a woman crashed into him in her chin-operated power chair and asked him to write a play about her.

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Jeff Nisker has written or co-written over 150 scientific articles and book chapters and seven plays, performed in Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia, and South Africa. He held Canadian Institutes of Health Research and Genome Canada grants exploring the use of theatre for citizen deliberation in health policy development. For his work using theatre for research and education, Jeff received the Royal Conservatory of Music's Educator of the Year Award and Western's Faculty Scholar Award for Innovation. Jeff has also been awarded the Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada's President's Award, and he was chosen by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's Peter Gzowski as one of the "Best Minds of Our Time."

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• Verlag: Iguana Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2012
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1927403367
• ISBN 13: 9781927403365
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 386
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