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.