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No Cure for the Future - Disease and Medicine in Science Fiction and Fantasy (Hardcover) Loot Price: R2,143
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No Cure for the Future - Disease and Medicine in Science Fiction and Fantasy (Hardcover): Gary Westfahl, George Slusser

No Cure for the Future - Disease and Medicine in Science Fiction and Fantasy (Hardcover)

Gary Westfahl, George Slusser

Series: Contributions to the Study of Science Fiction and Fantasy

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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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Imprint: Praeger Publishers Inc
Country of origin: United States
Series: Contributions to the Study of Science Fiction and Fantasy
Release date: September 2002
First published: September 2002
Editors: Gary Westfahl • George Slusser
Dimensions: 235 x 156 x 19mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 192
ISBN-13: 978-0-313-31707-1
Categories: Books > Fiction > General
Books > Medicine > General
LSN: 0-313-31707-0
Barcode: 9780313317071

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