Reading Neurocognitive Disorder

Abstract

The multiple uses of Humanities in teaching Medicine need hardly detailing; suffice to say that a number of top Medical Schools have included Medical Humanities in their curricula. In this context we will consider the way Eugène Ionesco can be put to good use when it comes to teaching neurocognitive disorder; his theatre, come to think of "The Bald Soprano," focuses on non-sequiturs, dislocated language and distorted logic — all of these being unfailing expressions of a cognitive impairment or even demise.