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Catching homelessness : a nurse's story of falling through the safety net / Josephine Ensign.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Berkeley, CA : She Writes Press, 2016Description: xvi, 217 pages : 1 portrait ; 22 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781631521171
  • 1631521179
Subject(s): Genre/Form:
Contents:
Next of kin -- First families -- Foreign territory -- Relics -- Homeless ghosts -- Confederate chess -- Death list -- Catching homelessness -- Going under -- Greyhound therapy.
Summary: "At the beginning of the homelessness epidemic in the 1980s, Josephine Ensign was a young, white, Christian wife, mother, and nurse running a new medical clinic for the homeless in the heart of the South. Through her work and intense relationships with patients and coworkers, her worldview was shattered, and after losing her job, family, and house, she became homeless herself. She reconstructed her life with altered views on homelessness -- and on the health care system. In Catching Homelessness, Ensign reflects on how this work, and the experience of being homeless, has changed her -- providing a piercing look at the homelessness industry, nursing, and our country's health care safety net"-- Provided by publisher.
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Adult Book Adult Book Main Library Biography ENSIGN, J. E59 Available 33111010495998
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

At the beginning of the homelessness epidemic in the 1980s, Josephine Ensign was a young, white, Southern, Christian wife, mother, and nurse running a new medical clinic for the homeless in the heart of the South. Through her work and intense relationships with patients and co-workers, her worldview was shattered, and after losing her job, family, and house, she became homeless herself. She reconstructed her life with altered views on homelessness--and on the health care system. In Catching Homelessness, Ensign reflects on how this work has changed her and how her work has changed through the experience of being homeless--providing a piercing look at the homelessness industry, nursing, and our country's health care safety net.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-206).

"At the beginning of the homelessness epidemic in the 1980s, Josephine Ensign was a young, white, Christian wife, mother, and nurse running a new medical clinic for the homeless in the heart of the South. Through her work and intense relationships with patients and coworkers, her worldview was shattered, and after losing her job, family, and house, she became homeless herself. She reconstructed her life with altered views on homelessness -- and on the health care system. In Catching Homelessness, Ensign reflects on how this work, and the experience of being homeless, has changed her -- providing a piercing look at the homelessness industry, nursing, and our country's health care safety net"-- Provided by publisher.

Next of kin -- First families -- Foreign territory -- Relics -- Homeless ghosts -- Confederate chess -- Death list -- Catching homelessness -- Going under -- Greyhound therapy.

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