Star Healer

Star Healer is a 1985 science fiction book by author James White, part of the Sector General series.

[1] 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.

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.

First edition, published by Del Rey Books . Cover art by Rick Sternbach .