Small Doses of the Future A Collection of Medical Science Fiction Stories /

• Main Author: Aiken, Brad (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Series: Science and Fiction,
• Subjects: Medicine.; Health informatics.; Medical research.; Cell biology.; Health.; Quality of life.; Biomaterials.; Medicine & Public Health.; Medicine/Public Health, general.; Popular Science in Medicine and Health.; Cell Biology.; Quality of Life Research.; Health Informatics.

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 specu...

Table of Contents:

• Foreword
• Preface
• 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.