Our research assistant Anna McFarlane has just returned from a trip to the Wellcome Library and the National Library of Scotland as part of a Wellcome Trust-funded project entitled ‘Nursing, Reproduction, and Writing: Naomi...
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...
In our second workshop we began with a discussion about the Qualcomm Tricorder XPrize which encourages inventors to come up with a real life tricorder, a medical jack-of-all-trades that features in Star Trek and...
In the most recent issue of the Science Fiction Research Association’s quarterly review you can read an article by our research assistant, Anna McFarlane, giving some of her thoughts on the connections between science...
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...
To conclude the Science Fiction and the Medical Humanities project we are going to host a conference, bringing together the ideas and interests generated over the year. It will be held at the University...
Those entering our creative writing competition will be pleased to hear that Glasgow-based Freight Books have agreed to publish our Science Fiction and the Medical Humanities anthology. Having recently combined forces with Cargo books, Freight’s...
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...
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...
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...