Catching Homelessness
A Nurse's Story of Falling Through the Safety Net
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.
9781631521171
Book, Paperback
Catching Homelessness: A Nurse's Story of Falling Through the Safety Net
- Author: Josephine Ensign
She Writes Press, 2016
240
English
8.4 x 5.4 x 0.8 inches, 1 pounds
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