Wrong Place, Wrong Time Free

Author: John A. Rich
Edition: 1
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 0801893631
Category: Medical

Wrong Place, Wrong Time: Trauma and Violence in the Lives of Young Black Men

Medical school taught John Rich how to deal with physical trauma in a big city hospital but not with the disturbing fact that young black men were daily shot, stabbed, and beaten. Download Wrong Place, Wrong Time medical books for free.
This is Rich's account of his personal search to find sense in the juxtaposition of his life and theirs.Young black men in cities are overwhelmingly the victims-and perpetrators-of violent crime in the United States. Troubled by this tragedy-and by his medical colleagues' apparent numbness in the face of it-Rich, a black man who grew up in relative safety and comfort, reached out to many of these young crime victims to learn why they lived in a seemingly endless cycle of violence and how it affected them. The stories they told him are unsettling-and revealing Get Wrong Place, Wrong Time our bestseller medical books.

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