In this video introduction, Gretchen Case, the creator of the Rural Populations portrait, frames the portrait, introduces performance studies, and offers a video of the winding road to the hospital that her interviewee has to drive.
The Health Humanities Portrait, Rural Populations: Using Performance Studies to Understand Treatment and Access to Care, identifies the challenges and differences related to privacy and geographical access in the delivery of health care in a rural or remote setting.
These introduction video should be used when teaching this portrait.
Funding
National Endowment for the Humanities Humanities Initiation for Hispanic-Serving Institutions grant (AC-258909-18)