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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Small doses of the future
    sub title: a collection of medical science fiction stories
  name:
    name part: Aiken, Brad
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: sz
    date issued: 2014
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (xi, 193 pages) : illustrations.
  abstract: Like many fields of science, the future of medicine is frequently predicted by the science fiction writers of today, very much as many of today's medical advances were presaged by science fiction stories of the past. In this book, physician and science fiction author Brad Aiken conveys his own speculations about our medical future through nine highly entertaining and thought-provoking short stories. Touching upon a great variety of themes, including but not limited to telemedicine and remote surgery, vaccination strategies against unknown deathly pathogens, nanomedicine to cure diseases and retard ageing, bionics, cloning and euthanasia, we get a glimpse of what might be awaiting humanity. Yet, in these stories it is always the protagonists, humans after all, who remain at the center stage, not the new technologies. This provides the fictional material with a unique blend of science fiction and social fantasy. It also warns us to be wary of the pitfalls of too much reliance on dehumanizing technology and to make sure it remains our helper, not our master. Last but not least, an extensive scientific essay investigates the interplay between science fiction and both past and current advances in medical sciences and technology, making the link to the fictional material in the book as well as to the relevant scientific literature.
  table of contents: Part I Short Stories -- Locked In -- Questioning the Tree -- Freudian Slipstream -- Done That, Never Been There -- Hiding from Nobel -- The Last Clone -- If He Only Had a Brain -- Once, On a Blue Moon -- A Time to Every Purpose -- Part II The Science behind the Fiction: The Invasion of Modern Medicine by Science Fiction.
  note: Brad Aiken.
  subject:
    topic: Science fiction, American
  subject:
    topic: Medical fiction
  subject:
    topic: Popular Science in Medicine and Health
  subject:
    topic: Quality of Life Research
  subject:
    topic: Health Informatics
  subject:
    topic: Biomaterials
  subject:
    topic: FICTION / General
  classification: PS3601.I39 S63 2014eb
  classification: 813/.6
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Science and fiction (Springer (Firm))
  identifier: 9783319042534 (electronic bk.)
  identifier: 331904253X (electronic bk.)
  identifier: 9783319042527
  identifier: http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login
  record info:
    record content source: GW5XE
    record creation date: 140303
    record change date: 20190407114456.0
    record identifier: in00003481609
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng