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Playing the Doctor, Playing the Patient: The Performance of Health Identities in Live Medical Television, 1958

Using the example of ‘Machines for Living’ (8 April 1958) from the BBC’s
 ‘Your Life in Their Hands’ series, I explore doctors’ and patients’ performances
 on live medical television. The point is to examine how the
 grammar and technology of live television provided affordances and
 constraints to the representation of medicine, here the high-tech medicine
 of dialysis and heart-lung bypass at Leeds General Infirmary. I use several
 theoretical lenses to focus attention on the participants’ performances,
 including work by Erving Goffman, Richard Schechner, Espen Ytreberg,
 Judith Butler, and Paddy Scannell. Although the analysis is tightly focussed
 on a single programme, it is intended to be generally applicable to the
 analysis of medical, and indeed non-fiction television of all kinds.