Science Fiction and the Medical Humanities
The project investigates the significance of science fiction for the medical humanities, and is intended to pathfind for a future, large-scale research project.
Science fiction isn’t confined to novels, short stories, and cinema; it also gives us a style and substance for our visions of medical progress. This project doesn’t investigate only the familiar genre elements of narrative fiction, cinema and TV. It also explores the so-called ‘technoscientific imaginary’, and its imagining of future possibilities enabled by biomedical progress.
Funded by: Wellcome Trust
Main contact: Dr Gavin Miller
Start date: 2015
End date: 2016
Units:
- University of Glasgow: College of Arts, School of Critical Studies
- University of Glasgow: Medical Humanities Research Centre
Keywords: Creative WritingLiteratureScience Fiction
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