Table of contents for No cure for the future : disease and medicine in science fiction and fantasy / edited by Gary Westfahl and George Slusser.

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1. Introduction: Of Plagues, Predictions, and Physicians
   Gary Westfahl                                                    1


Part I. Population Studies

2. The Science Fiction of Medicine
   H. Bruce Franklin                                                9

3. The Missionary Physician, from Asclepius to Kevorkian
   Frank McConnell                                                   23

4. No Cure for the Future: How Doctors Struggle to Survive in
   Science Fiction
   Kirk Hampton and Carol MacKay                                     31

5. From Dr. Frankenstein to Dr. McCoy: M.D.s and Ph.D.s in
   Science Fiction
   Joseph D. Miller                                                  53


Part II. Case Histories

6. The Immunology of Science Fiction: Maupassant's "Horla," the
   Medical Frame, and the Evolution of Genres
   George Slusser                                                    67




7. Surgical Evolution, or, The Scalpel as Shortcut: The Doctor as
    Interface between Science Fiction and Horror
    David Hinckley                                                    83

8. Sickness unto Death: Heart of Darkness and Journey to the
   End of the Night
   David K. Danow                                                    95

9. Big Brother as Doctor: Curing the Disease of Thoughtcrime in
   George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four
   Robert Van Cleave                                                101

10. Doctors' Ordeals: The Sector General Stories of James White
   Gary Westfahl                                                    111

11. Doctors of the Mind: Effective Mental Therapy and Its
   Implications
   Greg Bear                                                        119

12. 1950s Science Fiction Film Doctors and the Battle between
   Individualism and Conformity
   Susan A. George                                                  127

13. Synthetics, Humanity, and the Life Force in the Alien Quartet
   Mary Pharr                                                       133

14. The Body Apocalyptic: Theology and Technology in Films and
   Fictions of the MIME Era
   Howard V. Hendrix                                                141


Bibliography of Science Fiction Works Involving Disease and
Medicine                                                            151

Index                                                               173

About the Contributors                                              183