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Themes labels used: medical ethics, illness and identity, power imbalance, bureaucracy, authoritarianism, social satire, political critique, corruption, dehumanization, technology and ethics, bodily autonomy, trust and authority, family dissolution, tradition, capitalism critique, healthcare critique, medicalization, reality and hallucination, philosophical inquiry, religion and politics

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Black Jack, Vol. 1

Osamu Tezuka · 1998 · ブラック・ジャック [Black Jack]

An unlicensed genius surgeon takes on bizarre, high-stakes cases in a dark, funny, episodic medical manga.

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Themes labels: medical ethics · humanism · life and death · value of life · money and morality · professional ethics · justice · corruption · war · social inequality · human body · identity · gender identity · transformation · suffering · compassion · human nature · science and morality · faith in medicine · human dignity

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The Hospital at the End of the World

Justin C. Key · 2026

In a near-future AI-run world, a medical student uncovers family secrets and a deadly medical mystery in New Orleans.

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Themes labels: AI ethics · human care · medical autonomy · trust in technology · surveillance capitalism · corporate control · healthcare inequality · patient empathy · medical professionalism · family legacy · grief · identity · medicine as art · medicine as science · eugenics · opioid crisis · nepotism · class power · institutional corruption · humanity vs efficiency

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Concept M

Aafke Romeijn · 2017

In near-future Netherlands, a chronically ill young woman is pulled toward radical politics as her society strains under a costly disease.

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Themes labels: healthcare ethics · care burden · social solidarity · ableism · validism · economic burden · right to life · right to care · medical inequality · radicalization · extremism · populism · political manipulation · corruption · public discourse · discrimination · minority rights · collective responsibility · trust in institutions · bodily autonomy

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Running Out of Time

Margaret Peterson Haddix · 2004 · Out of Time

A girl from a fake 1840s village must enter the modern world to save her sick community before time runs out.

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Themes labels: truth vs deception · secrecy · medical ethics · public health · infectious disease · child autonomy · authority and control · trust · ignorance · decision-making · survival · identity · historical knowledge · modernity · culture shock · moral responsibility · health care · death · science and society

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The Terminal Man

Michael Crichton · 2002

An experimental brain surgery meant to stop violent seizures instead turns one patient into a deadly threat.

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Themes labels: medical ethics · human experimentation · technological risk · free will · identity · sanity · paranoia · control · mind-body relation · science and morality · hubris · dehumanization · overreliance on technology · brain and behavior · psychological intervention · playing God

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Transmetropolitan, Vol. 7: Spider's Thrash

Warren Ellis · 2002 · Transmetropolitan (Collected Editions)

An exiled gonzo journalist keeps fighting a corrupt president while uncovering the city’s darkest social truths.

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Themes labels: corruption · political satire · social criticism · media ethics · truth versus power · mortality · social welfare · poverty · mental illness · child exploitation · gentrification · free speech · government neglect · systemic failure · activism · human dignity

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To Protect

Mickey Zucker Reichert · 2011 · I, Robot (Reichert)

A young psychiatrist in 2035 uncovers a conspiracy linking child patients, nanobots, and a human-like robot.

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Themes labels: ethics · medical ethics · artificial intelligence · human behavior · nature vs nurture · mental illness · child welfare · technology and fear · progress versus backlash · professional responsibility · scientific discovery · public distrust · control and autonomy · honest mistake · life and death

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Pandemic

Robin Cook · 2018 · Jack Stapleton and Laurie Montgomery

A NYC medical examiner investigates a sudden death tied to transplantation, gene editing, and a feared outbreak.

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Themes labels: bioethics · medical ethics · genetic engineering · transplant ethics · public health panic · bureaucracy · science and society · pandemic fear · family stress · work-life conflict · greed · power abuse · medical research · regulation lag · truth vs appearance

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Lakewood

Megan Giddings · 2020

A broke Black college student joins a secret medical study to support her family, only to face escalating, unsettling experiments.

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Themes labels: medical racism · racial exploitation · class inequality · systemic racism · poverty and desperation · generational trauma · medical ethics · bodily autonomy · informed consent · family obligation · survival · dehumanization · institutional abuse · capitalism · healthcare access · memory and perception · trust and mistrust · social injustice · race and privilege

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The Waiting Rooms

Eve Smith · 2020

In a near-future antibiotic crisis, a nurse’s search for her birth mother unearths family secrets and deadly truths.

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Themes labels: antibiotic resistance · ageism · medical ethics · euthanasia · public health · pandemic fear · social inequality · resource rationing · government control · biosecurity · personal responsibility · scientific research · family identity · grief · forgiveness · loss · sacrifice · survival · morality in crisis · public health policy · medical triage · human cost of policy · danger of overuse

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The Adoration of Jenna Fox

Mary E. Pearson · 2008 · Jenna Fox Chronicles

A teen wakes from a coma with missing memories and uncovers a shocking secret about her body, family, and humanity.

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Themes labels: medical ethics · bioethics · identity · self-perception · memory · humanity · free will · parental sacrifice · choices · consciousness · morality · death and dignity · body autonomy · coming of age · forgiveness · faith and science

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Awakened

Laura Elliott · 2025

In a post-sleep apocalypse, guilt-ridden scientists trapped in the Tower of London race to cure the monsters they helped create.

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Themes labels: humanity · ethics · medical ethics · scientific responsibility · hubris · guilt · survival · autonomy · productivity culture · capitalism · disability · chronic illness · sleep · rest · memory · identity · personhood · othering · progress · greater good · ableism · sanity · madness · free will · body-mind divide

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