Families on the edge experiences of homelessness and care in rural New England
Families on the Edge is an ethnographic portrait of families in rural and small-town New England who are often undercut by the very systems that are set up to help them. In this book, author and medical anthropologist Elizabeth Carpenter-Song draws on a decade of ethnographic research to chart the s...
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge, Massachusetts :
The MIT Press,
[2023]
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| Series: | Culture and psychiatry (M.I.T. Press)
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| Summary: | Families on the Edge is an ethnographic portrait of families in rural and small-town New England who are often undercut by the very systems that are set up to help them. In this book, author and medical anthropologist Elizabeth Carpenter-Song draws on a decade of ethnographic research to chart the struggles of a cohort of families she met in a Vermont family shelter in 2009, as they contend with housing insecurity, mental illness, and substance use. Few other works have attempted to take such a long-term view of how vulnerability to homelessness unfolds over time or to engage so fully with existing scholarship in the fields of anthropology and health services--back cover. |
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| Physical Description: | xii, 176 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [159]-172) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780262546188 0262546183 |
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