Contribute to our online bibliography
We’re pleased to announce that we’re now opening suggestions for our online bibliography of sources in Science Fiction and the Medical Humanities. We want your help to add to the database, and also to...
Author: Gavin Miller
Writing Competition: judging underway!
When we opened the short-story competition in July of 2015, we had little idea how much interest it would arouse. We soon learned: the competition page has been by far and away the most...
Reflections on our first workshop
Science Fiction and Public Engagement with Medicine Anna and I were delighted to welcome to Glasgow the two guest speakers at our first workshop: Prof. Jenny Kitzinger of Cardiff University, and David Lawrence of Manchester...
Nothing to make a song and dance about
D.G. Compton’s The Continuous Katherine Mortenhoe (1974) has a particular relevance to medical humanities at Glasgow. When Bertrand Tavernier filmed the adapted screenplay as Death Watch (1980), he chose Glasgow as the setting for...
Heaven’s not above: Connie Willis’s Doomsday Book
Doomsday Book (1992) by Connie Willis is a science-fiction novel to warm the hearts of historians in the medical humanities. (NOTE for unwary readers: the following post contains multiple plot spoilers.) The central novum...
Should men lactate? Discuss.
For the last couple of years, I’ve set Marge Piercy’s feminist SF novel, Woman on the Edge of Time (1976), to my Honours Science Fiction class. The novel’s protagonist, Connie Ramos, has been telepathically...
Goodhealth, fellow Patients of the World Medarchy
‘Goodhealth and good to know you’ – so one might greet a fellow Patient in Ward Moore‘s 1978 dystopian SF novel, Caduceus Wild (based on an earlier 1959 short story). Following a biological war,...
To writers of new-fangled scientifiction
Now that the journal call has been promoted, it’s time to give a push to the project’s creative-writing competition for science-fiction stories (including novel excerpts) that deal with themes of medicine, health, and illness....
Science Fiction & Medical Humanities Research Assistant job (p/t)
Another milestone: we’re now advertising for a part-time research assistant to work on Science Fiction and the Medical Humanities for a year. The R.A. will be working on a number of our project activities,...
Why science fiction and the medical humanities?
I’m Gavin Miller, the leader of this project, which is among the Wellcome Trust’s new, exploratory Seed Awards in the medical humanities. For several years, I’ve been building a research profile in the critical...