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 thriller
- Medical comedy
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gollark: Is there some reason you can't use "rockwriter"?
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References
- Surawicz, Borys; Jacobson, Beverly (2009) Doctors in Fiction: Lessons from Literature. Radcliffe Publishing, ISBN 978-1-84619-328-6
- Scott, Philipp A. (1992) The medical research novel in English and German, 1900-1950. Popular Press, ISBN 0-87972-552-4
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