A witty and ironical selection of the best of Dr Dalrymple's 'Spectator' pieces, which he produces regularly for the journal, illustrated with cartoons by Nick Newman.

If Symptoms Persist

Humor & Entertainment

Dalrymple, Theodore

Humor

Andre Deutsch Ltd.

From the author of IF SYMPTOMS PERSIST, a crime novel written in the form of a monologue by a serial killer who sees himself as 'an ethical murderer, and who argues his way towards total vindication of his actions.

So Little Done: The Testament of a Serial Killer

TRAFALGAR SQUARE +

If Symptoms Still Persist

A collection of humorous essays taken from Dalrymple's columns in the Spectator and the Telegraph - a look at the foibles of contemporary Britain which ranges from the NHS to the individual complaints of patients.

Life expectancy has increased dramatically i n the last fifty years, but concern about health remains hig h. This book examines why we are so obsessed with health mat ters, and dispels some of the popular myths that surround he alth concerns. '

Mass Listeria: The Meaning of Health Scares

"The embargo was a success: the people were starving and the country was in ruins..." Extreme situations have always illuminated the human condition, and in these three stories set in three widely-separated places in times of crisis, Theodore Dalrymple explores the deeper levels of human nature. Theodore Dalrymple is a retired doctor and psychiatrist who has written many books, including Life at the Bottom, Romancing Opiates and Admirable Evasions.

Embargo and Other Stories

Literature & Fiction

Short Stories & Anthologies

Mirabeau Press

An inspired anthology about physical and psychological illness, healing, and healers--featuring a brilliant array of classic and contemporary writers, from Anton Chekhov to Lorrie Moore. This unique anthology gathers fictional tales of sickness and of healing, both physical and psychological, from a wide variety of times and perspectives. Some of these writers were themselves physicians, notably Anton Chekhov, Arthur Conan Doyle, Somerset Maugham, William Carlos Williams, and Mikhail Bulgakov. Bulgakov's story, taken from A Country Doctor's Notebook, draws on his early experience as a young doctor in rural Russia a century ago, while Anna Kavan's story, from her collection Asylum Piece, is based on her experience of mental illness. Guy de Maupassant, Robert Louis Stevenson, Rudyard Kipling, Joseph Conrad, Graham Greene, J. G. Ballard, Robert Heinlein, Alice Munro, and Lorrie Moore are among the other writers of medical adventures that fill these pages. From Chekhov's "A Doctor's Visit" and William Carlos Williams's "The Paid Nurse" to Dorothy Parker's "Lady with a Lamp," O. Henry's "Let Me Feel Your Pulse," and Jhumpa Lahiri's "Interpreter of Maladies," the stories gathered here are peopled by a colorful and varied cast of doctors, nurses, and patients.

The Best Medicine: Stories of Healing (Everyman's Library Pocket Classics Series)

United States

Everyman"s Library

A collection of humorous essays taken from Dalrymple's columns in the Spectator and the Telegraph - a look at the foibles of contemporary Britain which ranges from the NHS to the individual complaints of patients.

Newman, Nick

Chivers Press Ltd

Junk Medicine: Doctors, Lies and the Addiction Bureaucracy

Almost everything you know about heroin addiction is wrong.Not only is it wrong, but it is obviously wrong. Heroin is not highly addictive; withdrawal from it is not medically serious; addicts do not become criminals to feed their habit; addicts do not need any medical assistance to stop taking heroin; and contrary to received wisdom, heroin addiction most certainly IS a moral or spiritual problem.Based on his experience as a prison doctor and as a psychiatrist in a large general hospital in Birmingham, Dr. Dalrymple argues that addiction to heroin is not an illness at all, and that doctors only make it worse. They deceive both the addicts and themselves by pretending that they have something to offer.In this brilliant, entertaining and provocative book, Theodore Dalrymple explains how and why a literary tradition dating back to De Quincey and Coleridge, and continuing up to the deeply sociopathic William Burroughs and beyond, has misled all Western societies for generations about the nature of heroin addiction. These writers' self-dramatizing and dishonest accounts of their own addiction have been accepted uncritically, and have been more influential by far in forming public attitudes than the whole of pharmacological science. As a result, a self-serving, self-perpetuating and completely useless medical bureaucracy has been set up to deal with the problem. With scathing wit, implacable logic and savage denunciation, Dr. Dalrymple exposes the mythology surrounding heroin addiction. Moving seamlessly between literature, pharmacology, history and philosophy, he demonstrates what happens when the nature of a social problem is so thoroughly misunderstood, and when human beings are regarded as inanimate objects rather than as agents of their own destiny. His scintillating, iconoclastic little book has an importance far beyond its immediate subject matter.

Politics & Social Sciences

Politics & Government

Harriman House

A searing account of life in the underclass and why it persists as it does, written by a British psychiatrist.

Life at the Bottom: The Worldview that Makes the Underclass

Business & Money

Economics

Ivan R. Dee, Publisher

Life at the Bottom: The Worldview That Makes the Underclass

Ivan R. Dee

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If Symptoms Persist

So Little Done: The Testament of a Serial Killer

If Symptoms Still Persist

Mass Listeria: The Meaning of Health Scares

Embargo and Other Stories

The Best Medicine: Stories of Healing (Everyman's Library Pocket Classics Series)

If Symptoms Still Persist

Junk Medicine: Doctors, Lies and the Addiction Bureaucracy

Life at the Bottom: The Worldview that Makes the Underclass

Life at the Bottom: The Worldview That Makes the Underclass