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Edinburgh Companion to Science Fiction and the Medical Humanities

Miller, Gavin McFarlane Anna McCormack Donna
Innbundet / 2025 / Engelsk

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ISBN
9781474485074
Publisert
2025-03-31
Utgiver
Edinburgh University Press
Høyde
244 mm
Bredde
170 mm
Aldersnivå
G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
432

Redaktør
Miller, Gavin
McFarlane Anna
McCormack Donna

Biografisk notat

Gavin Miller is Reader in Contemporary Literature and Medical Humanities at the University of Glasgow. His research interests include science fiction, history of the psychological disciplines, book history, and the cultural history of UFOs. He is the lead editor of the Edinburgh University Press series, Contemporary Cultural Studies in Illness, Health and Medicine, and the author of Science Fiction and Psychology (2020) and Miracles of Healing: Psychotherapy and Religion in Twentieth-century Scotland (2020). Anna McFarlane is the James Murray Beattie Lecturer in Fantasy Literature at the University of Glasgow and author of the monograph Cyberpunk Culture and Psychology: Seeing Through the Mirrorshades (2021). Her research on traumatic pregnancy and its expression in fantastika was awarded a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship, and she is a Visiting Collaborator on the Wellcome Trust funded Future of Human Reproduction project at the University of Lancaster. She is the co-editor of The Routledge Companion to Cyberpunk Culture (2020) and Fifty Key Figures in Cyberpunk Culture (2022). Donna McCormack is a Chancellor’s Fellow and Senior Lecturer in the Department of Humanities at the University of Strathclyde. Their research interests include chronic illness and the medical humanities, queer and crip theories, biotechnologies (specifically organ transplantation), postcolonial and anticolonial theories, and contemporary science and speculative fiction. Their first monograph is Queer Postcolonial Narratives and the Ethics of Witnessing (2014) and they have coedited special issues of Somatechnics, BMJ Medical Humanities and European Journal of Cultural Studies.

Edinburgh Companion to Science Fiction and the Medical Humanities

Miller, Gavin McFarlane Anna McCormack Donna
Innbundet / 2025 / Engelsk
Miller, Gavin McFarlane Anna McCormack Donna
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Once again, SF and a newly-emerging discipline collide and find they are different ways of looking at the same things: augmentation, diet, disability, embodiment, euthanasia, prosthesis, reproduction, shock, surveillance, trans identity, trauma, biopolitical governance and neoliberal depredations... An essential addition to every medical humanities and SF studies bookshelf and reading list.

- Mark Bould, UWE Bristol,

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.
Les mer
The first volume to interrogate the intersections between science fiction and the medical humanities.
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
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Critically interrogates the technological optimism of the medical and biotechnological professions

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Once again, SF and a newly-emerging discipline collide and find they are different ways of looking at the same things: augmentation, diet, disability, embodiment, euthanasia, prosthesis, reproduction, shock, surveillance, trans identity, trauma, biopolitical governance and neoliberal depredations... An essential addition to every medical humanities and SF studies bookshelf and reading list.

- Mark Bould, UWE Bristol,

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.
Les mer
The first volume to interrogate the intersections between science fiction and the medical humanities.
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
Les mer
Critically interrogates the technological optimism of the medical and biotechnological professions

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781474485074
Publisert
2025-03-31
Utgiver
Edinburgh University Press
Høyde
244 mm
Bredde
170 mm
Aldersnivå
G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
432

Redaktør
Miller, Gavin
McFarlane Anna
McCormack Donna

Biografisk notat

Gavin Miller is Reader in Contemporary Literature and Medical Humanities at the University of Glasgow. His research interests include science fiction, history of the psychological disciplines, book history, and the cultural history of UFOs. He is the lead editor of the Edinburgh University Press series, Contemporary Cultural Studies in Illness, Health and Medicine, and the author of Science Fiction and Psychology (2020) and Miracles of Healing: Psychotherapy and Religion in Twentieth-century Scotland (2020). Anna McFarlane is the James Murray Beattie Lecturer in Fantasy Literature at the University of Glasgow and author of the monograph Cyberpunk Culture and Psychology: Seeing Through the Mirrorshades (2021). Her research on traumatic pregnancy and its expression in fantastika was awarded a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship, and she is a Visiting Collaborator on the Wellcome Trust funded Future of Human Reproduction project at the University of Lancaster. She is the co-editor of The Routledge Companion to Cyberpunk Culture (2020) and Fifty Key Figures in Cyberpunk Culture (2022). Donna McCormack is a Chancellor’s Fellow and Senior Lecturer in the Department of Humanities at the University of Strathclyde. Their research interests include chronic illness and the medical humanities, queer and crip theories, biotechnologies (specifically organ transplantation), postcolonial and anticolonial theories, and contemporary science and speculative fiction. Their first monograph is Queer Postcolonial Narratives and the Ethics of Witnessing (2014) and they have coedited special issues of Somatechnics, BMJ Medical Humanities and European Journal of Cultural Studies.

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