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Science Fiction and Medical Humanities
Visionary medicine: speculative fiction, racial justice and Octavia Butler's ‘Bloodchild’

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  • John Carlo Pasco Medical Sciences, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, USA Graduate Program in Narrative Medicine, Columbia University, New York, New York, USA PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Camille Anderson Graduate Program in Narrative Medicine, Columbia University, New York, New York, USA PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Sayantani DasGupta Graduate Program in Narrative Medicine, Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race, Institute for Comparative Literature and Society, Columbia University, New York, New York, USA PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  1. Correspondence to John Carlo Pasco, 1038 Beacon Street, Apt. 302, Brookline, MA 02446, USA; jcarlopasco{at}gmail.com
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Pasco JC, Anderson C, DasGupta S
Visionary medicine: speculative fiction, racial justice and Octavia Butler's ‘Bloodchild’
Medical Humanities 2016;42:246-251.

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  • Accepted September 5, 2016
  • First published October 6, 2016.
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November 25, 2016

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