Star Healer
1985 novel by James White
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::summary 1985 novel by James White ::
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Star Healer is a 1985 science fiction book by author James White, part of the Sector General series.{{citation | contribution="James White" | title=Dictionary of Literary Biography, Vol. 261, British Fantasy and Science-Fiction Writers Since 1960 | publisher=Gale Research Publications | url=http://www.bookrags.com/biography/james-white-dlb/ | accessdate=17 December 2008 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110525051422/http://www.bookrags.com/biography/james-white-dlb/ | archive-date=2011-05-25 | url-status=live
Plot
Conway is replaced on the ambulance ship Rhabwar by Diagnostician Prilicla. Conway visits healer Khone on the planet Goglesk, and witnesses first-hand their destructive racial mass-hysteria response to physical proximity. He inadvertently links minds with Khone and learns a great deal more. Back at Hospital Station, Conway decides to treat some Hudlar accident victims with a rear-to-front limb transplant, because stranger transplants require permanent exile. Conway also proposes staving off geriatric Hudlar problems by elective amputation. At the end, he successfully delivers a sentient telepathic Unborn (seen in the other novel of the series Ambulance Ship) from its violent non-sentient Protector.
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