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Catching Homelessness: A Nurse's Story of Falling Through the Safety Net - Softcover

Ensign, Josephine

 
9781631521171: Catching Homelessness: A Nurse's Story of Falling Through the Safety Net
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1631521179 ISBN 13: 9781631521171
Verlag: She Writes Press, 2016

Inhaltsangabe

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.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Josephine Ensign is an associate professor at the University of Washington, Seattle, where she teaches community health, health policy, and narrative medicine. A graduate of Oberlin College, the Medical College of Virginia, and Johns Hopkins University, she has been a nurse for over thirty years, providing health care for homeless and marginalized populations. She is an alumna of Hedgebrook and the Community of Writers at Squaw Valley. Her essays have appeared in The Sun, The Oberlin Alumni Magazine, Pulse, Silk Road, The Intima, The Examined Life Journal, Johns Hopkins Public Health Magazine, and the nonfiction anthology I Wasn’t Strong Like This When I Started Out: True Stories of Becoming a Nurse, edited by Lee Gutkind. Catching Homelessness is her first book. She lives in Seattle.

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Verlag
She Writes Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2016
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1631521179
ISBN 13 
9781631521171
Einband
Taschenbuch
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
240
Kontakt zum Hersteller
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Verantwortliche Person
Simon and Schuster Netherlands BV
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