The Prison Doctor: The Final Sentence by Dr Amanda Brown - Non Fiction - Paperback

Details. Condition: BRAND NEW. Format: Paperback. ISBN: 9780008448011. Publisher: HQ. Age Range: Adult (18+). Overview. Dr Amanda Brown's The Prison Doctor: The Final Sentence takes readers back inside the world of British prison medicine, this time focusing on foreign national inmates awaiting deportation, appeal, or return to countries they barely remember. Writing with the same warmth and honesty that made her earlier books bestsellers, Dr Brown treats every patient with equal compassion, regardless of their crime or uncertain future. This true-crime memoir is an unflinching, humane look at healthcare behind bars, ideal for readers of real-life medical stories, prison memoirs and social justice non-fiction.. About the Book. Dr Amanda Brown is a GP who left conventional NHS practice to work where medical need is often greatest: inside the prison system. She has treated patients at a teenage detention centre, at Wormwood Scrubs, and now at Bronzefield, Europe's largest women-only prison. In The Prison Doctor: The Final Sentence, the third book in her bestselling series, she turns to Huntercombe prison and the foreign national men held there, many facing deportation, danger, or return to countries they left decades earlier. Told through real, deeply personal patient encounters, the book explores the fear, uncertainty and quiet dignity of men existing in a legal and emotional no-man's land. Dr Brown does not shy away from the ethical complexity of her role, caring for people w...