Living And Dying In A Brick City Summary

There are six theories that are presented in chapter three of the Revel textbook that can be applied to the Davis text, “Living and Dying in a Brick City”. I applied three theories from the textbook to Davis’ book. They are Freud’s Elements of personalities, Kohlberg’s Theory of moral development and Cooley’s looking Glass self.
When examining Freud’s Elements of Personalities there are several instances that it can be applied to Davis’ first three chapters One that is notable is the one of the first people that davis writes about Snake. When looking at Snake you see that his personality was driven by Id and superego. There seems to be no point at which his ego has balanced him well enough to be able to take him from a life of crime. This

They treat people with Sickle Cell anemia on a daily basis and the issue is that medical professionals are unable to assess pain. So you have multiple patients going into ER’s seeking prescription drugs. These dr’s have to feed the addiction because they have no way of saying if these patients are telling the truth or not. A prime example of this is Mr. Jacob’s, This is a patient that Davis had that no one expected was an addict because he presented himself as respectable. So Davis treated him continuously with pain medication that lead to addiction. This is where Kohlberg’s postconventional level comes into play. Davis understood that giving medical help to theses patients was important but he also understood that he had become a drug dealer to the masses because it is his job to help with pain management. Therefore in order to adhere to what society expects of him as a dr he must continue to give the adicts their drug of choice even if they know or suspect that the patient is hooked on the pain medication regularly given to the patients. This is also where Cooley’s looking Glass Self can come into