At Peril
Subtitle: Stories of Injustice
Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press; University of Massachusetts
Published: December 1, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 310
ISBN-13: 9781558492783
Subjects: Social groups & communities; Social issues; Social welfare & social services; Sociology - General; Social Conflict; Social Science; Psychology; Sociology; USA; Sociology - Social Theory; Public Policy - Social Services & Welfare; Social Psychology; Social problems; United States
First sentence: IN MANY respects, what goes on in the field of medical care is merely an extension of the most elemental care offered people by one another.
Description: "At its heart, this book is a collection of personal accounts that speak to a variety of social concerns, from youth crime and domestic violence to public education and health care. Told by children as well as adults, these stories offer illuminating if sometimes disturbing testimony about the circumstances of life in the contemporary United States. One story, for example, depicts the precarious world of a thirteen-year-old drug dealer.

Another presents the searing narrative of a woman convicted of killing her abusive husband. Still another tells the painful saga of an atomic war veteran fighting the ravages of a disease induced and then denied by his own government."--BOOK JACKET.