Star Healer
{{Short description|1985 novel by James White}}
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File:StarHealer.jpg. Cover art by Rick Sternbach.]]
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.