Great Science Fiction About Doctors
By: edited with an introduction and story prefaces by Groff Conklin and Noah D. Fabricant.
Contributors: Conklin, Groff, 1904-1968.; Fabricant, Noah D. 1904-
Publisher: Collier Books
Published: 1963
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Mass Market Paperback
Number of pages: 412
Subjects: Physicians -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Other titles: Science fiction about doctors.
Description: When the medical mind takes off on a flight of fancy (or fantasy), watch out! The results, as these eighteen tales show, can be chillingly plausible or tantalizingly irrational. Represented in this anthology are a number of practicing physicians -- including Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (M.D.!) -- as well as such well-known science fictioneers as Arthur C. Clarke, C.M. Kornbluth, and Murray Leinster, and such classical writers as Poe and Hawthorne. 

Some of the stories ("The Man Without an Appetite" and "Family Resemblance") are lighthearted. Some ("The Little Black Bag" and "A Matter of Ethics") are biting. Some ("Rappacini's Daughter" and "The Brothers") are ghoulish. All are compelling, and all project a sometimes titillating, sometimes macabre, but always incisive view of the far-out worlds of medicine. 

The editors prescribe this collection for the fun of it: to relax tensions and expand the imagination. But if you come across some provacative, serious ideas, don't be startled -- science fiction is full of such intriguing surprises.
--back cover
Table of contents: title: The Man Without an Appetite by Miles J. Breuer; title: Out of the Cradle, Endlessly Orbiting by Arthur C. Clarke; title: The Brothers by Clifton Dance, Jr.; title: The Great Keinpatz Experiment by Arthur Conan Doyle; title: Compound B by David Harold Fink; title: Rappacini's Daughter by Nathaniel Hawthorne; title: The Psychophonic Nurse by David H. Keller; title: The Little Black Bag by C.M. Kornbluth; title: Ribbon in the Sky by Murray Leinster; title: Mate in Two Moves by Winston K. Marks; title: Bedside Manner by William Morrison; title: The Shopdropper by Alan Nelson; title: Family Resemblance by Alan E. Nourse; title: Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar by Edgar Allan Poe; title: Emergency Operation by Arthuer Porges; title: A Matter of Ethics by J.R. Shango; title: Bolden's Pets by F.L. Wallace; title: Expedition Mercy by J.A. Winter