TY - JOUR T1 - Books: <em>Righteous Dopefiend</em> JF - British Journal of General Practice JO - Br J Gen Pract SP - 88 LP - 88 DO - 10.3399/bjgp18X694733 VL - 68 IS - 667 AU - Khalil Hassanally Y1 - 2018/02/01 UR - http://bjgp.org/content/68/667/88.1.abstract N2 - Philippe Bourgois and Jeff Schonberg University of California Press, 2009, PB, 420pp, £21.99, 978-0520254985In Righteous Dopefiend, the anthropologists Philippe Bourgois and Jeff Schonberg present their findings from over 10 years of ethnographic research within the Edgewater community, a group of homeless heroin addicts living at the margins of San Francisco. Following the lives of almost a dozen main characters, or the ‘lumpen’ as the author terms them in a revival of Marxist terminology, we witness the symbolic and structural violence that they experience on a … ER -