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"Doctors Can Dance:
Dead Man Talking: Using devised theatre to explore a topical issue in bioethics"

Ms. Anna Newell
Queen’s University Belfast

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Doctors Can Dance
Dead Man Talking: Using devised theatre to explore a topical issue in bioethics

ABSTRACT
Dead Man Talking was a cross faculty interprofessional initiative with the School of Medicine, Dentistry & Biomedical Sciences, Centre for Medical Education and the Centre for Excellence in the Creative and Performing Arts at Queen’s University Belfast (QUB). An ethicist (Dr. Melissa McCullough) and a theatre director (the proposers of this workshop), facilitated this intensive performing arts project along with a freelance choreographer. The purpose was to allow medical and drama students to explore a predefined bioethics topic (body donation was chosen for the 2009 pilot), and use devised theatre techniques to aid the students in the development of a script that was then performed to the public over three nights in September 2009. An added challenge was that students had two weeks to complete this process and refine the performance.

This keynote talk was given by Anna Newell at the 8th Annual Galway Symposium on Higher Education, 11th June 2010. The conference title was "Creative Thinking: Re-imagining the University"

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"Doctors Can Dance: Dead Man Talking: Using devised theatre to explore a topical issue in bioethics"

"Doctors Can Dance:
Dead Man Talking: Using devised theatre to explore a topical issue in bioethics"