Document Type
Review Essay
Abstract
[First paragraph]
A couple of years ago, a fleeting "scandal" flickered across the pages of the British tabloid press. Through a combination of coincidence and British Data Protection laws, a woman acquired a copy of her own – formerly confidential – medical records. It transpired that her General Practioner (family doctor) had covertly recommended she be sterilized, following multiple pregnancies by different fathers. Needless to say, as the target of these recommendations, she was outraged, taking her story to The Sun, Britain's bestselling newspaper (July 21, 2006). In turn, the tabloid transformed her individual fury by redirecting hostilities towards the woman herself, on account of her alleged fecklessness and welfare dependancy.
Repository Citation
Barnfield, Graham. "On Theodore Dalrymple's Life at the Bottom: The Worldview That Makes the Underclass and Simon Winlow's Badfellas: Crime, Tradition and New Masculinities." Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture vol. 8, no. 4, 2008, pp. 1–6. https://digitalcommons.odu.edu/reconstruction/vol8/iss4/20