Caduceus Wild1978

Themes:

birth; cloning; doctors/physicians; eugenics (including dysgenics); healthcare, future of; nurses; pregnancy; public & population health

Excerpt:

... the Medarchy. Supreme authority vested in a select few. For at the time of the exploding of the aerosol germ bombs in the last stages of the war, the ascendancy of physicians went unquestioned. Doctors had to be in complete charge of survivors in order to prevent further epidemics, dietary mistakes, and total chaos. Doctors' orders thus became the only legal and legitimate orders. Unchallenged. (p. 8)