Science Fiction and the Medical Humanities

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McFarlane, Anna. "Science Fiction and the Medical Humanities." Under SFRA Business, SFRA Review #315 (Winter 2016): pp. 3-6.[1]

"Science Fiction and the Medical Humanities is a research project based at the University of Glasgow [...]. The project aims to explore the links between this new academic field and science fiction from its inception (wherever one marks that occasion)" (pp.4-5).

One of the projects of the Project is

holding a creative writing competition to be judged in part by science fiction author Adam Roberts. Roberts is a fitting choice for the role as his novels have explored themes relevant to the medical humanities. In Land of the Headless (2007) Roberts describes a planet ruled by theol- ogy; a civilisation advanced enough to take space travel for granted, but that punishes those who deviate from its diktats with beheading. Medical technology is used to keep the beheaded alive in a move that claims to be merciful despite its cruel grotesquery. Roberts uses this premise to challenge the common conflation of technological and ethical progress. Medicine and the human body are also at the forefront of By Light Alone (2011) in which nano- technology is used to allow human beings to photo- synthesise.

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