Fevers and Physicians in Space by various ~ Full Audiobook [scifi]

Fevers and Physicians in Space by various audiobook.

Genre: scifi

Fevers and Physicians in Space is a wide-ranging science fiction anthology that puts the human body under pressure: in sickrooms and laboratories, on crowded Earths and in the sealed, fragile habitats of space. Across a lineup of classic short stories by multiple authors, medicine becomes both a lifeline and a battleground. A global outbreak forces uneasy questions about what really counts as a cure. A society obsessed with orderly survival turns childbirth and death into bureaucratic decisions. Beauty itself becomes a mandate, and those who resist discover the cost of nonconformity. Far from home, an ailing spaceman faces the terrifying logistics of quarantine, while doctors and administrators argue over whether entire worlds can be sacrificed in the name of containment. Other tales chase the dream of defeating mortality through radical procedures, new chemistry, or experimental therapies that may backfire in unexpected ways. From alien environments that trigger strange reactions to patients who treat healthcare like a transaction, each story spotlights the same central conflict: when technology can change the body, who gets to decide what 'health' means, and what are we willing to risk to preserve it?

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 1

(00:37:40) Chapter 2

(00:52:48) Chapter 3

(01:27:26) Chapter 4

(01:50:33) Chapter 5

(02:43:12) Chapter 6

(03:12:04) Chapter 7

(03:49:43) Chapter 8

(04:10:58) Chapter 9

(04:18:38) Chapter 10

(05:24:38) Chapter 11

(05:46:42) Chapter 12

(06:09:18) Chapter 13

(06:22:46) Chapter 14

(06:59:03) Chapter 15

(07:13:56) Chapter 16

(07:42:29) Chapter 17

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