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Introduction /Katharine Low --Understanding health, wellbeing, the millennium development goals and health inequities /Katharine Low --Aesthetics, instrumentalism and ethics in health and wellbeing /Veronica Baxter --Ageing: dementia care, death and dying (the UK and North America) :Introduction /Katharine Low ;Essay:Participatory theatre and dementia /Nicola Hatton ;Interview:A discussion about death? 'I feel more alive now' /Sue Mayo in conversation with Liz Rothschild, Director of Kicking the Bucket: A Festival of Living and Dying --Communicable diseases: tuberculosis (South Africa), malaria (Malawi) and dengue fever (Brazil) :Introduction /Katharine Low ;Essay:Tuberculosis: the forgotten plague /Veronica Baxter and Michele Tameris ;Snapshot:Dialogical theatre: reconsidering the role for theatre for development for malaria prevention in Malawi /Zindaba Dunduzu Chisiza ;Interview:Public enemy no. 1: dengue fever in the favelas of Brazil /Johayne Hildefonso is interviewed by Jan Onoszko --Non-communicable diseases: lifestyle and post-colonial stress disorder (Canada), nutrition and health eating (Denmark), diabetes (UK) :Introduction /Katharine Low ;Essay:'Acting out' our health: assisting youth in making healthy lifestyle choices through linking indigenous perspectives about wellbeing with Applied Theatre /Julian Robbins, Warren Linds, Linda Goulet, Jo-Ann Episkenew and Karen Schmidt ;Snapshot:Health theatre for children /Dan Grabowski and Jens Aagaard-Hansen ;Snapshot:Creativity and change in the lifestyles of South Asian communities in Yorkshire /Geetha Upadhyaya --Sexual health: practice from South Africa and the Asia-Pacific region :Introduction /Veronica Baxter ;Essay:'It's difficult to talk about sex in a positive way': creating a space to breathe /Katharine Low ;Snapshot:Performing the solution: cautions and possibilities when using theatre conventions within HIV prevention programmes /Helen Cahill --Cancer: research from the UK, USA and Australia :Introduction /Katharine Low ;Essay:Proud disclosures and awkward receptions: between bodies with cancer and their audiences /Brian Lobel ;Snapshot:Alive and out there: theatre addressing stigma around cancer in diverse communities in Sydney, Australia /Astrid Perry and Lynne Baker --Women's health and gender inequity: experiences from India, Malawi and the Solomon Islands :Introduction /Veronica Baxter ;Essay:The ambiguities of Shakti: performing women's well-being in India /Nandita Dinesh ;Snapshot:Women's drama group in Malawi targets mothers and children for burns prevention /Effie Makepeace ;Snapshot:Stages of change: using theatre to address domestic violence in the Solomon Islands /Kiara Worth --Mental health: perspectives from South Africa, the UK and Brazil :Introduction /Veronica Baxter ;Essay:Between the 'traditional' and the theatrical: forms and performances of healing depression in South Africa /Sinethemba Makanya ;Snapshot:Mad gyms and kitchens, Bobby Baker and Daily Life Ltd /Caoimhe McAvinchey ;Interview:Dionysus and ritual ecstasy: madness and medicine /Vitor Pordeus is interviewed by Katharine Low --Snapshots of practice: environmental health, medical dramaturgy, addiction and ebola :Introduction /Veronica Baxter ;Snapshot:Ecological health in Violeta Luna's NK603: action for performer & e-maiz /Lisa Woynarski ;Snapshot:Storying climate change adaptation: theatre as a research tool in an ecohealth research process in the Eastern Cape, South Africa /Nicholas Hamer and Alexandra Sutherland ;Snapshot:Generating a medical dramaturgy: live intersections between intermediality and health /Deirdre McLaughlin and Joanne Scott ;Snapshot:'Dance lifts us up in the world': socially engaged theatre with people in recovery from addiction /Zoe Zontou ;Snapshot:The performance of ebola: a critical analysis of Ebola doctors /Gloria Ernest-Samuel --Afterword /Veronica Baxter and Katharine Low. Applied Theatre: Performing Health and Wellbeing is the first volume in the field to address the role that theatre, drama and performance have in relation to promoting, developing and sustaining health and wellbeing in diverse communities. Challenging concepts and understanding of health, wellbeing and illness, it offers insight into different approaches to major health issues through applied performance. With a strong emphasis on the artistry involved in performance-based health responses, situated within a history of the field of practice, the volume is divided into two sections: Part One examines some of the key questions around research and practice in applied performance in health and wellbeing, specifically addressing the different regional challenges that dominate the provision of health care and influence wellbeing: how the aging population of the global north creates pressure on lifetime healthcare provision, while the global south is dominated by a higher birth rate and a larger population under 15 years old. Part Two comprises case studies and interviews from international practitioners that reflect the diversity of practices across the world and in particular differences between work in the northern and southern hemispheres. These case studies include a sanitation project in a Hmong refugee camp in Thailand in the 1980s, and the sanitation and rural development projects initiated by the traveling theatre troupes of a number of University theatre departments in Africa -- Makerere in Kampala, Uganda; Botswana; Lesotho and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania -- which began in the 1960s. It considers the emergence of Theatre for Development's use as a health approach, considering the work of Laedza Batanani and the influences of Augusto Boal's Theatre of the Oppressed
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