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Life At The Bottom. Theodore Dalrymple

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ISBN: 9781566635059 | 288 pages | 8 Mb

• Life At The Bottom
• Theodore Dalrymple
• Page: 288
• Format: pdf, ePub, fb2, mobi
• ISBN: 9781566635059
• Publisher: Ivan R Dee

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Here is 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 seemingly 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. Dalrymple's key insight in Life at the Bottom is that long-term poverty is caused not by economics but by a dysfunctional set of values, one that is continually reinforced by an elite culture searching for victims. This culture persuades those at the bottom that they have no ...