Wasted Lives
Subtitle: Modernity and Its Outcasts
Publisher: Polity Press
Published: December 1, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 152
ISBN-13: 9780745631653
Subjects: Social issues; Social theory; Sociology; Social Science; Poverty; POPULATION POLICY; Political Science / General; REFUGEES; Emigration & Immigration; Sociology - Rural
First sentence: According to a recent report by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, The number of young people battling depression has doubled in twelve years, as hundreds of thousands find themselves excluded from rising levels of education and prosperity . . . When those born in 1958 completed a questionnaire on their mental health in 1981, 7 per cent had a tendency to non-clinical depression.