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

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

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