Titlebook: Using Medicine in Science Fiction; The SF Writer’s Guid H. G. Stratmann Book 2016 Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016 Medica

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The Promises and Perils of Medical Nanotechnology,ithin that range of sizes. For example, proteins have dimensions between 1 to 20 nm, the width of a DNA helix is about 2.5 nm, and even ribosomes, the protein-constructing organelles within cells, have diameters of about 2–4 nm. Indeed, our bodies are living models of “natural” nanotechnology in action.

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Genetic Engineering: Tinkering with the Human Body,rains over twice as large as members of their ancestors, ., over 1 million years ago. While the latter had only enough intelligence to create simple stone tools, ours has increased enough to create a more complex and at times deadly technology.

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The Biology of Immortality,ally becoming senile and frail—in one version of the myth, even turning into a cicada—but could not die.). Jonathan Swift’s . (1726) describes a similar fate for undying “struldbrugs” and the way their country of Luggnagg deals with them.

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hology using the “stiffness” of the tissue is more that 2000 years old. Even today it is common for surgeons to find lesions during surgery that have been missed by advanced imaging methods. Palpation is subjective and limited to individual experience and to the accessibility of the tissue region to

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H. G. Stratmannd that blind narrators, characters and readers engage with t.Thisbook argues that the most interesting depictions of blindness in Frenchfiction are those which call into question and ultimately undermine theprevailing myths and stereotypes of blindness which dominate Western thought.Rather than seei