SuitabookHealthcare and social control
Kaida enters a society where nobody knows of doctors or hospitals and a fascist government enforces taboos against medicine and sickness.
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Faye Kellerman - Author
Aliza Kellerman - Author
This is a speculative survival thriller about a teenager separated from her familiar world and confronted by a society that rejects medicine. Expect danger, mystery, pursuit and questions about how authority controls knowledge.
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Sign in for personalised guidanceThis is a speculative survival thriller about a teenager separated from her familiar world and confronted by a society that rejects medicine. Expect danger, mystery, pursuit and questions about how authority controls knowledge.
Kaida enters a society where nobody knows of doctors or hospitals and a fascist government enforces taboos against medicine and sickness.
After a class-trip accident and a night in a desert cave, Kaida wakes at home in a world almost like her own, while fellow accident victims also recognise that something is wrong.
The story includes a terrible van accident, a frightening night in a desert cave, high-speed chases and a government enforcing prohibitions around sickness and medicine.
This is a grounded book brief while Suitabook strengthens the analysis: the book’s treatment of its main themes is not yet firm enough; some draft conclusions still depend on unresolved evidence.
Anything not established here remains open; it is not being treated as absent or safe.