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Nonfiction Title:
No Cure for the Future: Disease and Medicine in Science Fiction and Fantasy • (2002) • nonfiction by
George E. Slusser and Gary Westfahl
[as by George Slusser and Gary Westfahl]
Contents (view Concise Listing)
- 1 • Introduction: Of Plagues, Predictions, and Physicians • essay by Gary Westfahl
- 9 • The Science Fiction of Medicine • essay by H. Bruce Franklin
- 23 • The Missionary Physician, from Asclepius to Kevorkian • essay by Frank McConnell
- 31 • No Cure for the Future: How Doctors Struggle to Survive in Science Fiction • essay by Kirk Hampton and Carol MacKay
- 53 • From Dr. Frankenstein to Dr. McCoy: M.D.s and Ph. D.s in Science Fiction • essay by Joseph D. Miller
- 67 • The Immunology of Science Fiction: Maupassant's "Horla," the Medical Frame, and the Evolution of Genres • essay by George E. Slusser [as by George Slusser]
- 83 • Surgical Evolution, or, The Scalpel as Shortcut: The Doctor as Interface between Science Fiction and Horror • essay by David Hinckley
- 95 • Sickness unto Death: Heart of Darkness and Journey to the End of the Night • essay by David K. Danow
- 101 • Big Brother as Doctor: Curing the Disease of Thoughtcrime in George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four • essay by Robert Van Cleave
- 111 • Doctors' Ordeals: The Sector General Stories of James White • essay by Gary Westfahl
- 119 • Doctors of the Mind: Effective Mental Therapy and Its Implications • essay by Greg Bear
- 127 • 1950s Science Fiction Film Doctors and the Battle between Individualism and Conformity • essay by Susan A. George
- 133 • Synthetics, Humanity, and the Life Force in the Alien Quartet • essay by Mary Pharr
- 141 • The Body Apocalyptic: Theology and Technology in Films and Fictions of the MIME Era • essay by Howard V. Hendrix
- 151 • Bibliography of Science Fiction Works Involving Disease and Medicine. • essay by uncredited
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