Description:1982 edition of a 1973 book.DOCTOR IN THE NUDE
Nudity is a starkly emotive subject. You may be against it—like Mrs Samantha Dougal, self-appointed guardian of British morals on the telly. You may be all for it— like Mrs Dougal’s novelist husband Auberon, who has left her to move in with his brother-in-law the dean of St Swithin’s.
The poor dean’s life is already complicated by a trendy new hospital chaplain, his voluptuous seventeen-year-old daughter, and the opening of the new St Swithin’s building by the Queen. While Sir Lancelot Spratt is suddenly insisting that he isn’t even a doctor at all, a strange epidemic of nudity breaks out among St Swithin’s medical staff...