Genetic leap: The greatest medical fiction

The medical lessons of science fiction.

Literature and Medicine 20, no. 1 (Spring 2001) 13–25 © 2001 by Eric S. Rabkin *The Genre Evolution Project (GEP) web site (http://www.umich.edu/~genreevo) includes a Team Roster that lists the names of all faculty and students involved in this work from its inception. I particularly want to thank my friend and collaborator Carl P. Simon, Professor of Mathematics, Economics, Public Policy, and ...

Merging medical practices: look before you leap.

Current changes in health care are forcing many physicians to merge their medical practices. Because any successful merger requires careful planning, there are many critical issues that should be reviewed, discussed, and decided by physicians considering merging their medical practices. This article explores some of these issues and provides a useful practice merger checklist.

Medical humanities and medical alterity in fiction and in life.

A widely accepted component of any answer to the question 'What is it to do good medical ethics?' is the commitment to benefit people's health, in principlist terminology, 'beneficence'. This paper addresses deliberate maleficence and the cultural otherness with which it is associated, focusing on the activities of the serial killer Dr Harold Shipman. It finds an uncanny 'fit' between the norma...

BOOK REVIEW Medical Qigong: Fact or Fiction?

Replacing the patient: the fiction of prosthetics in medical practice.

The invention of computer simulations used for practicing surgical maneuvers in a video game-like format has an ancestry in the artificial limbs of history and is reflected, grotesquely, in Edgar Allan Poe's short story, "The Man That Was Used Up" (1850). The nineteenth century worked to ensure that the incomplete body did indeed retain a sense of self by creating prostheses to mimic corporeal ...