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No Cure for the Future Disease and Medicine in Science Fiction and Fantasy

Westfahl Gary Slusser George
Innbundet / 2002 / Engelsk

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ISBN
9780313317071
Publisert
2002-09-30
Utgiver
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Praeger Publishers Inc
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425 gr
Høyde
235 mm
Bredde
156 mm
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UU, UP, P, 05, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
192

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Westfahl Gary
Slusser George

Om bidragsyterne

Gary Westfahl is adjunct professor at the University of La Verne, CA. His previous books include Science Fiction, Canonization, Marginalization, and the Academy (2002), Unearthly Visions: Approaches to Science Fiction and Fantasy Art (2002), and Worlds Enough and Time: Explorations of Time in Science Fiction and Fantasy (2002), all available from Greenwood Press. George Slusser is professor of comparative literature at the University of California, Riverside. He has written several books about science fiction authors and coedited numerous scholarly studies.

No Cure for the Future Disease and Medicine in Science Fiction and Fantasy

Westfahl Gary Slusser George
Innbundet / 2002 / Engelsk
Westfahl Gary Slusser George
Innbundet / 2002 / Engelsk
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Speculations about new medical advances have been a crucial aspect of science fiction since its origins in the 19th century, when such novels as Frankenstein and The Island of Dr. Moreau provided powerful mythic images of doctors with godlike abilities to create and transform human life. This book is the first full-length study of the speculative literature of medicine, with contributions by two science fiction novelists and several noted scholars. Chapters examine how science fiction stories have commented on and influenced the medical establishments of the past and present. But the volume also considers the strangely marginalized status of medical science fiction, concluding that the doctor's traditional focus on maintaining the health of the human body conflicts at a fundamental level with the genre's desire to transcend the human body. The first section provides broad surveys of the history of medical science fiction, ranging from 19th-century classics to major films of the 1990s. The second offers detailed examinations of important texts and series, including Guy de Maupassant's Le Horla, George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, James White's Sector General stories, the Alien films, and the Terminator films. A concluding bibliography lists more than 500 science fiction and fantasy novels, stories, films, and television programs involving disease and medicine as well as relevant nonfiction works and critical studies.
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This volume offers a broad study of the history of medicine in science fiction and fantasy literature and film, as well as detailed examinations of some of the field's greatest works.
Introduction: Of Plagues, Predictions, and Physicians by Gary Westfahl Population Studies The Science Fiction of Medicine by H. Bruce Franklin The Missionary Physician, from Asclepius to Kevorkian by Frank McConnell No Cure for the Future: How Doctors Struggle to Survive in Science Fiction by Kirk Hampton and Carol MacKay From Dr. Frankenstein to Dr. McCoy: M.D.s and Ph.D.s in Science Fiction by Joseph D. Miller Case Histories The Immunology of Science Fiction: Maupassant's "Horla," The Medical Frame, and the Evolution of Genres by George Slusser Surgical Evolution, or, The Scalpel as Shortcut: The Doctor as Interface between Science Fiction and Horror by David Hinckley Sickness unto Death: Heart of Darkness and Journey to the End of the Night by David K. Kanow Big Brother as Doctor: Curing the Disease of Thoughtcrime in George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four by Robert Van Cleave Doctor's Ordeals: The Sector General Stories of James White by Gary Westfahl Doctors of the Mind: Effective Mental Therapy and Its Implications by Greg Bear 1950s Science Fiction Film Doctors and the Battle between Individualism and Conformity by Susan A. George Synthetics, Humanity, and the Life Force in the Alien Quartet by Mary Pharr The Body Apocalyptic: Theology and Technology in Films and Fictions of the MIME Era by Howard V. Hendrix Bibliography of Science Fiction Works Involving Disease and Medicine
Les mer
Offers a broad study of the history of medicine in science fiction and fantasy literature and film as well as detailed examinations of some of the field's greatest works.

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Speculations about new medical advances have been a crucial aspect of science fiction since its origins in the 19th century, when such novels as Frankenstein and The Island of Dr. Moreau provided powerful mythic images of doctors with godlike abilities to create and transform human life. This book is the first full-length study of the speculative literature of medicine, with contributions by two science fiction novelists and several noted scholars. Chapters examine how science fiction stories have commented on and influenced the medical establishments of the past and present. But the volume also considers the strangely marginalized status of medical science fiction, concluding that the doctor's traditional focus on maintaining the health of the human body conflicts at a fundamental level with the genre's desire to transcend the human body. The first section provides broad surveys of the history of medical science fiction, ranging from 19th-century classics to major films of the 1990s. The second offers detailed examinations of important texts and series, including Guy de Maupassant's Le Horla, George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, James White's Sector General stories, the Alien films, and the Terminator films. A concluding bibliography lists more than 500 science fiction and fantasy novels, stories, films, and television programs involving disease and medicine as well as relevant nonfiction works and critical studies.
Les mer
This volume offers a broad study of the history of medicine in science fiction and fantasy literature and film, as well as detailed examinations of some of the field's greatest works.
Introduction: Of Plagues, Predictions, and Physicians by Gary Westfahl Population Studies The Science Fiction of Medicine by H. Bruce Franklin The Missionary Physician, from Asclepius to Kevorkian by Frank McConnell No Cure for the Future: How Doctors Struggle to Survive in Science Fiction by Kirk Hampton and Carol MacKay From Dr. Frankenstein to Dr. McCoy: M.D.s and Ph.D.s in Science Fiction by Joseph D. Miller Case Histories The Immunology of Science Fiction: Maupassant's "Horla," The Medical Frame, and the Evolution of Genres by George Slusser Surgical Evolution, or, The Scalpel as Shortcut: The Doctor as Interface between Science Fiction and Horror by David Hinckley Sickness unto Death: Heart of Darkness and Journey to the End of the Night by David K. Kanow Big Brother as Doctor: Curing the Disease of Thoughtcrime in George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four by Robert Van Cleave Doctor's Ordeals: The Sector General Stories of James White by Gary Westfahl Doctors of the Mind: Effective Mental Therapy and Its Implications by Greg Bear 1950s Science Fiction Film Doctors and the Battle between Individualism and Conformity by Susan A. George Synthetics, Humanity, and the Life Force in the Alien Quartet by Mary Pharr The Body Apocalyptic: Theology and Technology in Films and Fictions of the MIME Era by Howard V. Hendrix Bibliography of Science Fiction Works Involving Disease and Medicine
Les mer
Offers a broad study of the history of medicine in science fiction and fantasy literature and film as well as detailed examinations of some of the field's greatest works.

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780313317071
Publisert
2002-09-30
Utgiver
Vendor
Praeger Publishers Inc
Vekt
425 gr
Høyde
235 mm
Bredde
156 mm
Aldersnivå
UU, UP, P, 05, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
192

Redaktør
Westfahl Gary
Slusser George

Om bidragsyterne

Gary Westfahl is adjunct professor at the University of La Verne, CA. His previous books include Science Fiction, Canonization, Marginalization, and the Academy (2002), Unearthly Visions: Approaches to Science Fiction and Fantasy Art (2002), and Worlds Enough and Time: Explorations of Time in Science Fiction and Fantasy (2002), all available from Greenwood Press. George Slusser is professor of comparative literature at the University of California, Riverside. He has written several books about science fiction authors and coedited numerous scholarly studies.

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