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Catching Homelessness|Josephine Ensign

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

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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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  • ISBN-13: 9781631521171
  • ISBN-10: 1631521179
  • Publisher: She Writes Press
  • Publish Date: August 2016
  • Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.4 x 0.8 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 0.7 pounds
  • Page Count: 240

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