The Edinburgh Companion to Science Fiction and the Medical Humanities by Miller, Gavin; McFarlane, Anna; McCormack, Donna;

Series: Edinburgh Companions to Literature and the Humanities;

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Publisher Edinburgh University Press
Date of Publication 31 March 2025
Number of Volumes Print PDF

ISBN 9781474485074
Binding Hardback
No. of pages432 pages
Size 244x170 mm
Language English
Illustrations 7 black & white illustrations

Short description:

The first volume to interrogate the intersections between science fiction and the medical humanities.

Long description:

The medical humanities are becoming increasingly important as their first wave is interrogated by a critical approach that aims to uncover the wider possibilities of the field. In conversation with this debate, this volume explores the ways in which science fiction studies can contribute to such discussions. Science fiction challenges techno-optimism and offers a non-realist avenue for the expression of illness experience. Science fiction also estranges its readers from their societies and the medical possibilities inherent in those societies, inviting consideration of how medicine may be complicit with, or opposed to, other structures of power. By engaging these concerns, this Companion volume offers a unique viewpoint on the power of the future to shape the present.

List of Figures
Acknowledgements

Outline of the Collection
Gavin Miller and Anna McFarlane

Science Fiction Studies and the Medical Humanities: Interdisciplinary Futures
Gavin Miller and Anna McFarlane

Part I. Health and Pathology
1. Pregnancy as Analogy and Portrayals of Pregnancy in Science Fiction
Anna McFarlane
2. Taking Stock of Future Shock: The Medicalised Rebirth of ‘Cultural Lag’
Gavin Miller
3. Objects, Embodiment, and Patterning Disability in William Gibson
Stuart Murray
4. ‘At the front lines of the sleep apocalypse’: Sleeplessness, Biomedical Ambivalence, and Consumer Culture in Charles Huston’s Sleepless and H. G. Bells’s Sleep Over
Manali Karmakar
5. Wellbeing and Worldbuilding
Jo Lindsay Walton
6. Trauma
Glyn Morgan

Part II. Technologies
7. State-Mandated Health: The Tyranny of Chemical Meals
Aline Ferreira
8. ‘Model for the Future’: Post-Disability and Non-Normative Female Embodiment
Julia Gatermann
9. Psychotechnology
Rob Mayo
10. Bodies, Right or Wrong: Medicine, Gender Identity, and Science Fiction’s Representation of Transgender Possibility
Wendy Gay Pearson
11. Science Fiction and Bioethics
Ari Schick
12. Cyberpunk: Techno-Biopolitics and Posthuman Multiplicity
Ingvil Hellstrand

Part III. Across Media
13. Metabolically Other: Race, Consumption, and ‘Superpower’ in Comics
Patrick S. Allen
14. Contemporary Theatre and Medical Science Fiction
Ian Farnell
15. Going with ‘the Crowd’: Representations of Unexplained Illness and Future Diagnostic Promises in Netflix’s Diagnosis
Maaike Hommes
16. No Flesh Shall Be Spared: In-Game Bodies and Neoliberal Health
Paweł Frelik
17. (Dis)ability, Prosthesis, and Human Enhancement in Deus Ex: Human Revolution
Lars Schmeink

Part IV. Across Time
18. Medicine in Proto-Science Fiction
Timothy S. Miller
19. Overturning Hippocrates: Euthanasia and the Utopian Tradition
Patrick Parrinder
20. Unveiling a Parallel: Eugenics and Republican Motherhood in Nineteenth-Century Feminist Dystopia
Jennifer M. Reeher
21. Medicine and the Scientific Romance
Emilie Taylor-Pirie
22. War, Wounds, and Waldos: Science Fiction and Prosthetic Modernism
Paul March-Russell

Part V. Across Space
23. Overture to a Brave New World – Utopian Ends, Dystopian Means: Transhumanist Biopolitics in Paolo Mantegazza’s Italian Proto-Science Fiction Narrative The Year 3000
Manfred Milz
24. Sucking Salt and Breathing Seawater in Caribbean SF
Frances Hallam
25. Dissecting the Future in Chinese Science Fiction: Lu Xun, Transnational Surrogacy, Male Pregnancy, and Strange Children
Mia Chen Ma

Notes on Contributors
Index