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What can sci-fi teach us about the future of health? | Ara Darzi

Written By Unknown on Wednesday, May 3, 2017 | 11:22 AM

We need innovative thinking in healthcare now more than ever – so we’re asking for ideas from writers whose work is all about escaping the limitations of the past

In State of Wonder, the American writer Ann Patchett imagined the discovery made by a charismatic but despotic professor, Dr Annick Swenson, who travelled deep into the Amazon basin and found a tribe in which the women went on bearing children until the end of their lives. While their bodies aged as normal, their reproductive systems stayed daisy-fresh.

Membership Event: Ann Patchett in conversation

The big gains are likely to come from innovations in the general purpose technologies that have transformed our world

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