Skid Road: at the border of health and homelessness in an American city
Written by Joséphine Ensign
Reported by Holly Adams
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BOOK DESCRIPTION
In Skid Road, Josephine Ensign digs through the layers of Seattle's history, beyond its leaders and prominent citizens, respectable and otherwise, to reveal the stories of neglected and long-silent people who live on the fringes of the city. Company. The sometimes fragmentary accounts of these people, their lives and their deaths, are not included in the official history of a place. How, Ensign asks, has a large, socially progressive city like Seattle addressed the health needs of people marginalized by poverty, mental illness, substance abuse, racial/ethnic/sexual identities, and homelessness? Drawing on interviews and extensive research, Ensign shares a diversity of voices in contemporary health care and public policy debates. Informed by her own experience of homelessness, as well as more than three decades of work as a family nurse practitioner providing primary health care to the homeless, Ensign is in a unique position to explore the tensions between care and oppression, as well as charity and solidarity. that polarize perspectives on homelessness across the country. A timely story in light of the ongoing debate over health care reform, the affordable housing crisis, and the COVID-19 pandemic, Skid Road stories illuminate issues surrounding poverty and homelessness -shelter across America.
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Josephine Ensign is a professor in the School of Nursing and an assistant professor in the Department of Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Washington. She is the author of Catching Homelessness: A Nurse's Story of Falling through the Safety Net and Soul Stories: Voices from the Margins.
Holly Adams is a classically trained, award-winning actress and storyteller who loves everything about stories and the beings who inhabit them. As a narrator, Holly specializes in action-adventure/fantasy, mysteries/thrillers, and the subtle comfort of self-help nonfiction.
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AUDIOBOOK DETAILS
Purchase on Google Play Books https://g.co/booksYT/AQAAAEA8e387UM
French language
Publisher: Tantor Media Inc.
Published on: August 17, 2021
ISBN: 9781666159745
Duration: 8h 44m
Genres: Health & Fitness/Healthcare Issues, Medical/Public Health, Social Sciences/Poverty & Homelessness
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