Scenarios about 'medicine'
The study and practice of diagnosing, treating, and preventing disease throughout human history. Medical knowledge has evolved from ancient healing traditions to modern evidence-based practices, with breakthroughs like germ theory, antibiotics, vaccines, and surgical techniques dramatically extending human lifespans and quality of life. In alternate history scenarios, different trajectories of medical development can profoundly alter population demographics, warfare outcomes, and societal structures.
What If Aging Was Slowed or Reversed?
Exploring the alternate timeline where science discovers a viable method to significantly slow or reverse human aging, fundamentally transforming society, economics, and human potential.
What If Antibiotics Were Never Discovered?
Exploring the alternate timeline where penicillin and other antibiotics were never discovered, radically altering modern medicine, public health, and global demographics throughout the 20th and 21st centuries.
What If Gene Editing Was Developed Earlier?
Exploring the alternate timeline where CRISPR-like gene editing technologies emerged in the 1980s, drastically accelerating biotechnology, medicine, and raising profound ethical questions decades before our timeline.
What If Heart Disease Was Eliminated?
Exploring the alternate timeline where heart disease was effectively eliminated as a major cause of death, dramatically reshaping global healthcare, economics, demographics, and social structures.
What If Organ Transplantation Was Developed Earlier?
Exploring the alternate timeline where functional organ transplantation became medically viable in the early 20th century, revolutionizing healthcare decades ahead of our timeline and fundamentally altering medical science and ethics.
What If Penicillin Was Never Discovered?
Exploring the alternate timeline where Alexander Fleming never discovered penicillin in 1928, potentially delaying the antibiotic revolution and transforming modern medicine, warfare, and global health outcomes throughout the 20th and 21st centuries.