Small doses of the future : a collection of medical science fiction stories /

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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Aiken, Brad (Author)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Cham : Springer, 2014.
Series:	Science and fiction (Springer (Firm))
Subjects:	Science fiction, American. Medical fiction. Popular Science in Medicine and Health. Quality of Life Research. Health Informatics. Biomaterials. FICTION / General. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

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.