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BISCAIA FERNANDEZ, José Miguel  e  MOHEDANO DEL POZO, Rosa Belén. Description and analysis of biomedical content in movies from the Alien saga. Rev Med Cine [online]. 2020, vol.16, n.1, pp.29-36.  Epub 15-Mar-2021. ISSN 1885-5210.  https://dx.doi.org/10.14201/rmc20201612936.

The Science-Fiction movies have become a showcase of the latest technological advances and vanguard and scientific speculation. It can, therefore, be used as a divulgation tool and as a training resource. However, if you want to differentiate the real and plausible from the fantastic and impossible, it is necessary to have a rigorous look of the techno-scientific material that presents us. In the present study, the biomedical content of the films of the Alien saga is described and analyzed. Of the different areas of knowledge cataloged by the Ministry of Education, Culture and Sports of Spain, we found that at least 37 of them, related to biosanitary issues, were treated with different depth in the saga, highlighting especially the Microbiology and Clinical Parasitology or the Human Physiology and Anatomy. Even admitting the artistic licenses of the fantastic genre to which the saga belongs, we believe that the content and biomedical treatment of these works could be used as a teaching resource for students of different biosanitary degrees such as Medicine, Nursing, Pharmacy or Dentistry.

Palavras-chave : science-fiction; microbiology; parasitology; anatomy; physiology; teaching.

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