Description |
xv, 263 pages ; 23 cm |
Contents |
Grim Reality -- The Knife Went In -- Goodbye, Cruel World -- Reader, She Married Him--Alas -- Tough Love -- It Hurts, Therefore I Am -- Festivity, and Menace -- We Don't Want No Education -- Uncouth Chic -- The Heart of a Heartless World -- There's No Damned Merit in It -- Choosing to Fail -- Free to Choose -- What Is Poverty? -- Do Sties Make Pigs? -- Lost in the Ghetto -- And Dying Thus Around Us Every Day -- Grimmer Theory -- The Rush from Judgment -- What Causes Crime? -- How Criminologists Foster Crime -- Policemen in Wonderland -- Zero Intolerance -- Seeing Is Not Believing |
Summary |
"Life at the Bottom offers a searing account - probably the best yet published - of life in the underclass and why it persists as it does." "Theodore Dalrymple, a British psychiatrist who treats the poor in a slum hospital and a prison in England, has apparently seen it all. Yet in listening to and observing his patients, he is continually astonished by the latest twist of depravity that exceeds even his own considerable experience. He uses a remarkable gift for reportage to recount the behavior of his patients and to analyze its implications in underclass life and for our society as a whole."--BOOK JACKET |
Analysis |
Mental health |
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Poverty |
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Prisoners |
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Great Britain |
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Social conditions |
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Overseas item |
Notes |
Includes index |
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"With the exception of the Introduction, the contents of this book first appeared in City Journal, published by The Manhattan Institute" -- t. p. verso |
Bibliography |
Includes index |
Subject |
Social values -- Great Britain.
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Social problems -- Great Britain.
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Prisoners -- Mental health -- Great Britain.
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Criminals -- Mental health -- Great Britain.
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Prisoners -- Mental health -- Great Britain.
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Poor -- Mental health -- Great Britain.
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Criminals -- Mental health -- Great Britain.
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Criminal Psychology.
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Poverty -- psychology.
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Prisoners -- psychology.
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SUBJECT |
Great Britain -- Moral conditions.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2007100292
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United Kingdom. https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D006113 |
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United Kingdom. https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D006113 |
LC no. |
2001037221 |
ISBN |
1566633826 alkaline paper |
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1566635055 |
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