Anthony (A.M.) Daniels is a Britishphysician and writer who frequently uses the pen nameTheodore Dalrymple. Daniels has worked as a doctor and psychiatrist, in Zimbabwe and Tanzania, and more recently at a prison and a public hospital in Birmingham, in central England. He has combined this work with extensive travel (in Africa, South America, Eastern Europe, and elsewhere), as well as with the production of a novel and numerous pieces of journalism and cultural commentary.
Daniels has revealed in his writing that his father was a Communist activist, while his mother was born in Germany and came to the United Kingdom as a refugee from the Nazi regime. In his commentary, Daniels frequently argues that the progressive views prevalent within Western intellectual circles tend to minimize the responsibility of individuals for their own actions and to undermine traditional mores, thus contributing to the formation within rich countries of a vast underclass afflicted by endemic violence, criminality, sexual promiscuity, and drug abuse.
Works
Coups and Cocaine: Two Journeys in South America (1986)
Fool or Physician: The Memoirs of a Sceptical Doctor (1987)
Zanzibar to Timbuktu (1988)
Sweet Waist of America: Journeys around Guatemala (1990)
The Wilder Shores of Marx: Journeys in a Vanishing World (published in the U.S. as Utopias Elsewhere) (1991)
Monrovia Mon Amour: A Visit to Liberia (1992)
If Symptoms Persist: Anecdotes from a Doctor (1995)
So Little Done: The Testament of a Serial Killer (1996)
If Symptoms Still Persist (1997)
Mass Listeria: The Meaning of Health Scares (1998)
An Intelligent Person's Guide to Medicine (2001)
Life at the Bottom: The Worldview That Makes the Underclass (2001)
Romancing Opiates: Pharmacological Lies And The Addiction Bureaucracy (2005)
You Couldn't Make It Up: Our Culture--What's Left of It (2005)
External links
"Compassionate Conservative" (http://daily.nysun.com/Repository/getmailfiles.asp?Style=OliveXLib:ArticleToMail&Type=text/html&Path=NYS/2004/05/17&ID=Ar00104) (profile published in the New York Sun, 2004)
Dalrymple still needs to demonstrate that liberals and liberalism — as he puts it, "a social universe that liberals have wrought" — are to blame.
Dalrymple draws on his medical practice to tell the tale of a woman who has had three children with three different men, has been abused by every man she has lived with, and so forth.
Dalrymple is certainly right to point out that his patient has willingly collaborated in her own misery, and thus has willingly brought misery upon her children.
Dalrymple Havana is one of the most beautiful cities in the world, and it has perhaps the most harmonious ensemble of architecture, from the 16th to (most unusually) the middle of the 20th century.
Dalrymple Alfred Kinsey was a very strange man. He was repressed sexually until quite a late age, and then expressed his sexuality in more and more bizarre forms as he grew older.
Dalrymple, I must say that it is a true pleasure and honor to speak with you.
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