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position during dissection Rubber gloves: Disposable gloves are used to prevent contamination of evidence and to keep the wearer safe. Goggles: Goggles are worn to protect foreign objects from getting in the eyes. Jackets, aprons, etc. to protect against infection Autopsy saws: to cut tough structures like bones: Blades
Prosector and physician in a dissection. From "Anathomia", M. da Luzzi, 1459. A prosector is a person with the special task of preparing a dissection for demonstration, usually in medical schools or hospitals. Many important anatomists began their careers as prosectors working for lecturers and demonstrators in anatomy and pathology.
A key principle in the dissection of human cadavers (sometimes called androtomy) is the prevention of human disease to the dissector.Prevention of transmission includes the wearing of protective gear, ensuring the environment is clean, dissection technique [2] and pre-dissection tests to specimens for the presence of HIV and hepatitis viruses. [3]
A typical illustration of the tools in the story is Waldo's handling of his need to perform micro-dissection on the scale of cellular walls. He uses human-sized waldos to make smaller waldos, then uses those to make even smaller waldos, and continues the series until he has waldos small enough to work at the cellular scale.
The list includes technologies that were first posited in non-fiction works before their appearance in science fiction and subsequent invention, such as ion thruster. To avoid repetitions, the list excludes film adaptations of prior literature containing the same predictions, such as " The Minority Report ".
A Basic Reference Shelf for Science Fiction Teachers (1978) American Fantasy and Science Fiction: Toward a Bibliography of Works Published in the United States, 1948-1973 (1979) Fantasy Literature: A Core Collection and Reference Guide (1979) (with Robert H. Boyer and Kenneth J. Zahorski)
Science Fiction Literature through History: An Encyclopedia is a 2021 reference work written by science fiction scholar Gary Westfahl and published by ABC-Clio/Greenwood.The book contains eight essays on the history of science fiction, eleven thematic essays on how different topics relate to science fiction, and 250 entries on various science fiction subgenres, authors, works, and motifs.
Science in science fiction is the study or of how science is portrayed in works of science fiction, including novels, stories, and films. It covers a large range of topics. Hard science fiction is based on engineering or the "hard" sciences (for example, physics, astronomy, or chemistry).