Science fiction and the medical humanities
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12691747 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Greg Miller (0000-0002-3144-8233, University of Glasgow, corresponding author), Gavin Miller (University of Glasgow), Anna Mcfarlane (0000-0003-1100-8959, University of Glasgow) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 42 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 213-218 |
| Publication date | 2016-11-24 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Medical Humanities (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1468-215X • E-ISSN: 1473-4265 |
| Publisher | BMJ (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1136/medhum-2016-011144 |
| PMID | 27885035 |
| OpenAlex | W2554529762 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 13 |
| References cited | 12 |
Research on science fiction within the medical humanities should articulate interpretative frameworks that do justice to medical themes within the genre. This means challenging modes of reading that encourage unduly narrow accounts of science fiction. Admittedly, science studies has moved away from reading science fiction as a variety of scientific popularisation and instead understands science fiction as an intervention in the technoscientific imaginary that calls for investment in particular scientific enterprises, including various biomedical technologies. However, this mode of reading neglects science fiction's critical relationship to the construction of 'the future' in the present: the ways in which science fiction proposes concrete alternatives to hegemonic narratives of medical progress and fosters critical self-awareness of the contingent activity which gives 'the future' substance in the here-and-now. Moreover, the future orientation of science fiction should not distract from the function of medical science fiction as 'cognitive estrangement': the technological innovations that dominate science-fiction narratives are less concrete predictions and more generic devices that explain in historical time the origins of a marvellous world bearing provocative correspondences to our own, everyday reality. The editorial concludes with a series of introductions to the articles comprising the special issue, covering the print edition and a special online-only section
Art · Digital humanities · Humanities · Medical education · Medical humanities · Sociology · History · Medicine · Space Science and Extraterrestrial Life · Utopian, Dystopian, and Speculative Fiction
Recognition, collaboration and community
Analytical review of contemporary speculative literature
Biotechnological Luxury and the Ageing Body
The Ethical Interest of Frankenstein; Or, the Modern Prometheus
The Future of Public Health through Science Fiction
Becoming Acquainted with All That Pain”
Biocolonial pregnancies
Can We Imagine a Human Future
Rehabilitating the mind
Otherness, Cloning, and Morality in John Wyndham’s The Midwich Cuckoos (1957)
Graphic illustration of impairment
Towards cultural materialism in the medical humanities
Breath in the technoscientific imaginary
Demand the Impossible
Science fiction before the genre
The roles of rhetoric in the public understanding of science
Lab Coats in Hollywood
Metamorphoses of Science Fiction
Transcending Technology
The Dominant View of Popularization
Not a Virus, but an Upgrade
Science on Stage
Literary History as a Challenge to Literary Theory
| Unique citing works | 13 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1.3 |
| Citation span | 2016 - 2026 (11) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 13 |