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Introduction: Of Plagues, Predictions, and Physicians by Gary Westfahl;Population Studies; The Science Fiction of Medicine by H. Bruce Franklin; TheMissionary Physician, from Asclepius to Kevorkian by Frank McConnell; No Curefor the Future: How Doctors Struggle to Survive in Science Fiction by KirkHampton and Carol MacKay; From Dr. Frankenstein to Dr. McCoy: M.D.s andPh.D.s in Science Fiction by Joseph D. Miller; Case Histories; The Immunologyof Science Fiction: Maupassant's "Horla," The Medical Frame, and theEvolution of Genres by George Slusser; Surgical Evolution, or, The Scalpel asShortcut: The Doctor as Interface between Science Fiction and Horror by DavidHinckley; Sickness unto Death: Heart of Darkness and Journey to the End ofthe Night by David K. Kanow; Big Brother as Doctor: Curing the Disease ofThoughtcrime in George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four by Robert Van Cleave;Doctor's Ordeals: The Sector General Stories of James White by Gary Westfahl;Doctors of the Mind: Effective Mental Therapy and Its Implications by GregBear; 1950s Science Fiction Film Doctors and the Battle between Individualismand Conformity by Susan A. George; Synthetics, Humanity, and the Life Forcein the Alien Quartet by Mary Pharr; The Body Apocalyptic: Theology andTechnology in Films and Fictions of the MIME Era by Howard V. Hendrix;Bibliography of Science Fiction Works Involving Disease and Medicine.