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Tables of Contents for No Cure for the Future
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Acknowledgments
vii
Introduction: Of Plagues, Predictions, and Physicians
1
8
Gary Westfahl
Part I. Population Studies
The Science Fiction of Medicine
9
14
H. Bruce Franklin
The Missionary Physician, from Asclepius to Kevorkian
23
8
Frank McConnell
No Cure for the Future: How Doctors Struggle to Survive in Science Fiction
31
22
Kirk Hampton
Carol MacKay
From Dr. Frankenstein to Dr. McCoy: M.D.s and Ph.D.s in Science Fiction
53
14
Joseph D. Miller
Part II. Case Histories
The Immunology of Science Fiction: Maupassant's ``Horla,'' the Medical Frame, and the Evolution of Genres
67
16
George Slusser
Surgical Evolution, or, The Scalpel as Shortcut: The Doctor as Interface between Science Fiction and Horro
83
12
David Hinckley
Sickness unto Death: Heart of Darkness and Journey to the End of the Night
95
6
David K. Danow
Big Brother as Doctor: Curing the Disease of Thoughtcrime in George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four
101
10
Robert Van Cleave
Doctors' Ordeals: The Sector General Stories of James White
111
8
Gary Westfahl
Doctors of the Mind: Effective Mental Therapy and Its Implications
119
8
Greg Bear
1950s Science Fiction Film Doctors and the Battle between Individualism and Conformity
127
6
Susan A. George
Synthetics, Humanity, and the Life Force in the Alien Quartet
133
8
Mary Pharr
The Body Apocalyptic: Theology and Technology in Films and Fictions of the MIME Era
141
10
Howard V. Hendrix
Bibliography of Science Fiction Works Involving Disease and Medicine
151
22
Index
173
10
About the Contributors
183