No Cure for the Future
Subtitle: Disease and Medicine in Science Fiction and Fantasy (Contributions to the Study of Science Fiction and Fantasy)
Contributors: Gary Westfahl (Editor); George Slusser (Editor)
Publisher: Greenwood Press
Published: September 30, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9780313317071
Subjects: Fantasy; Literary studies: general; Medicine; Novels, other prose & writers; Science fiction; 20th century; c 1800 to c 1900; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Literary Criticism; Popular Culture - General; Science Fiction & Fantasy; Literary Criticism & Collections / Science Fiction; Fantasy fiction, American; Fantasy fiction, English; History and criticism; Science fiction, American; Science fiction, English
First sentence: What is called "modern medicine" or "Western medicine" emerged in the nineteenth century as part of the same historical process that generated another characteristically "modern" or "Western" phenomenon: science fiction.