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About this book
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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Social Science BiographiesIndex
Social SciencesTable of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Author’s Note
- Chapter One: Next of Kin
- Chapter Two: First Families
- Chapter Three: Foreign Territory
- Chapter Four: Relics
- Chapter Five: Homeless Ghosts
- Chapter Six: Confederate Chess
- Chapter Seven: Death List
- Chapter Eight: Catching Homelessness
- Chapter Nine: Going Under
- Chapter Ten: Greyhound Therapy
- Epilogue
- Sources
- Appendix A: Why We Need the Homeless
- Appendix B: Simple Ways to Help the Homeless
- Appendix C: Resources to Learn More about Homelessness Issues
- Acknowledgments
- About the Author
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