The Animal Doctor
( Swedish - Djurdoktorn - 1973 )
novel by P.C. Jersild
translated by Margareta & David Mel Paul
Published:
Pantheon Books - hardback - 1975
ISBN: 0394494644 / 9780394494647
University of Nebraska Press - hardback - 1988
ISBN: 0803225733 / 9780803225732
University of Nebraska Press - paperback - 1988
ISBN: 0803275692 / 9780803275690
synopsis
Set in an imaginary medical institute, this satirical novel describes a not unforeseeable world dominated by administrative science and social technology. The human beings and the research animals face the same predicament: both can be observed, controlled, and thrown into mazes. When Evy Beck joins the institute as a veterinarian she innocently enters into combat with a wily and impenetrable bureaucracy.
awards
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( Swedish - Djurdoktorn - 1973 )
novel by P.C. Jersild
translated by Margareta & David Mel Paul
Published:
Pantheon Books - hardback - 1975
ISBN: 0394494644 / 9780394494647
University of Nebraska Press - hardback - 1988
ISBN: 0803225733 / 9780803225732
University of Nebraska Press - paperback - 1988
ISBN: 0803275692 / 9780803275690
synopsis
Set in an imaginary medical institute, this satirical novel describes a not unforeseeable world dominated by administrative science and social technology. The human beings and the research animals face the same predicament: both can be observed, controlled, and thrown into mazes. When Evy Beck joins the institute as a veterinarian she innocently enters into combat with a wily and impenetrable bureaucracy.
awards
……...