biblio-excerptise:   a book unexamined is not worth having

Thursday Afternoons

Monica Dickens

Dickens, Monica (1915-1992);

Thursday Afternoons

Penguin Books, 1965, 320 pages

ISBN 0140007148

topics: |  fiction | uk


an irreverent account of the medical world, serving to undo its mystique and
poke fun at its pretensions and hypocrisies. Yet despite this, Dickens’
representation of the hospital world generally works within the medical
discourse, accepting its assumptions rather than posing a critique.


amitabha mukerjee (mukerjee [at] gmail.com) 17 Feb 2009