Medical fiction

Medical fiction

Medical fiction is fiction whose events center upon a hospital, an ambulance staff, or any medical environment. It is highly prevalent on television, especially as medical dramas, as well as in novels.

Subgenres

  • Romance novels have an independent subcategory in medicine, medical romance, with its own settings and characters.
  • Medical crime or conspiracy
  • Medical comedy

See also

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References

  • Borys Surawicz, Beverly Jacobson:Doctors in Fiction: Lessons from Literature. Radcliffe OUblishing 2009, ISBN 9781846193286 (online copy at Google Books)
  • Philipp A. Scott: The medical research novel in English and German, 1900-1950. Popular Press 1992, ISBN 0879725524 (online copy at Google Books)



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