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Medical crime fiction centers on events in a hospital, an ambulance, a biological research center, a forensic lab or a doctor's practice. It allows the dicussion of ethical dilemmas that are frequently avoided in the scientific community for reasons of discretion, embarrassment, or fear of retribution. Often, in medical crime fiction advanced or illegal medical research is features. It is usually depicted in an ambivalent or negative way, often associated with risky future developments. One of earliest examples of medical fiction is Mary Shelley's 'Frankenstein'. The novel itself concerns the abominable creation of Dr. Victor Frankenstein as the character attempts to circumvent death through the creation of life.
Medical crime fiction often touches our deepest fears: For instance, Kazuo Ishiguro's 'Never Let Me Go' is a dark, dystopian vision of a world where clones are used as organ harvesting farms.