Catching Homelessness

<p>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 <em>Catching Homelessness</em> 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.</p>