by Véronique Vasseur · Tapa blanda · ISBN 9782862747118
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«Médecin-chef à la prison de la Santé» is the testimony of doctor Véronique Vasseur, published by Le Cherche midi in 2000 (201 pages, in French).
Véronique Vasseur recounts in the first person her experience heading the medical services of the Santé prison in Paris: an outdated and overcrowded facility, with improvised consultations, overcrowding, violence and trafficking. The prisoners' attempts to create cultural life also appear, with opera, poems, exhibitions and football, between humanitarian medicine and emergency care.
The work belongs to the «Documents» collection of the Le Cherche midi imprint; its ISBN is 9782862747118 and it has 201 pages.
For readers of testimonies and memoirs, and for those who want to learn about the French prison system and healthcare in prisons from the inside.
