Families on the edge experiences of homelessness and care in rural New England
"Follows the experiences of families who have experienced homelessness in New England, tracing their struggles to maintain stable housing and their engagements with mental health and social services"--
| Main Author: | Carpenter-Song, Elizabeth (Author) |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge, Massachusetts :
The MIT Press,
[2023]
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Culture and psychiatry (M.I.T. Press)
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| Summary: |
"Follows the experiences of families who have experienced homelessness in New England, tracing their struggles to maintain stable housing and their engagements with mental health and social services"-- 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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