Can poverty be treated? For thirty-five years, pediatrician Maurice Titran has been working with families in the northern city of Roubaix who have been hit by unemployment, alcoholism, violence and extreme poverty. Inner-city families for whom everything seems to go awry, families in which handicaps and unhappiness come back again and again, generation after generation.
Maurice Titran doesn’t believe in hereditary fatality. With his staff at the Early-Action Socio-Medical Center, he refuses to restrain himself to a strictly medical treatment, and develops a real companionship with these families who have been cut off from society by extreme poverty. Where other professionals call for removing children from the environment, he says it’s better to help the parents learn to get their responsibility back. Listen, help, be there, and don’t pass judgement are his bywords.
This book follows this unusual pediatrician’s life and practice. At a time when medicine is able to perform with more and more sophisticated techniques, he runs the risk of being human, and proving that faith in mankind can move mountains.

The life and medical practice of pediatrician Maurice Titran, who is revolutionizing the way children are cared for with his sociological approach to sickness and handicap. Also a testimony to what certain families live through in the inner-city squalor of Roubaix.