PublishedIvan R. Dee, March 2003 |
ISBN9781566635059 |
FormatSoftcover, 284 pages |
Dimensions22.6cm × 14.8cm × 1.9cm |
This work is an account of life in the underclass and why it persists as it does, written by a British psychiatrist who treats the poor in a slum hospital and a prison in England. Its insight 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.
It draws upon eye-opening, true-life vignettes that are by turns hilariously funny, chillingly horrifying, and all too revealing - sometimes all at once.
