RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 The medical science fiction of James White: Inside and Outside Sector General
JF Medical Humanities
JO J Med Humanit
FD BMJ Publishing Group Ltd and Institute of Medical Ethics
SP 271
OP 276
DO 10.1136/medhum-2016-010910
VO 42
IS 4
A1 Richard Howard
YR 2016
UL http://mh.bmj.com/content/42/4/271.abstract
AB James White was a Northern Irish science fiction author working in the subgenre of medical science fiction from the mid-1950s to the end of the twentieth century. The aim of this article is to introduce White to scholars working in the medical humanities, pointing to features of interest and critiquing the more excessive utopian impulses of the author. The article covers White's Sector General series, set on a vast intergalactic hospital, as well as the author's standalone fictions.