Research Catalog

Title

Stories from the shadows : reflections of a street doctor / James J. O'Connell.

Author

O'Connell, James J.

Publication

[Boston, MA] : Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program, c2015.

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Holdings

Details

Description

186 pages : ill.; 23 cm.

Summary

"Dr. O'Connell's collection of stories and essays, written during thirty years of caring for homeless persons in Boston, gently illuminates the humanity and raw courage of those who struggle to survive and find meaning and hope while living on the streets."

Subject

• Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program
• Ill-Housed Persons
• Homeless persons > Boston
• Homeless persons > Boston > Case studies
• Homeless persons
• Massachusetts
• Boston
• Massachusetts > Boston

Genre/Form

• Case Reports
• Case studies
• Pictorial works

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Foreword by Dr. Howard K. Koh -- Dedication: Dr. Philip W. Brickner -- Introduction -- Writings. The footsoak -- Eyes and needles -- Epidemics of hopelessness -- Morning Clinic, Boston City Hospital -- Free Wheeling -- Long Island Shelter -- A good death -- The missing international child -- The menagerie -- Wonderland -- Odd Angles -- The bear -- Frostbitten -- Blessings that sustain -- Imponderables -- Lemuel Shattuck Hospital -- Listening -- Lost Treasure -- Homeless haunts -- Springtime hopes -- The Bigelow -- Urban prophets -- Zagnut bars -- Resilience -- Commitments -- Nectar and Nemesis -- Remembering 9/11/2001 -- A modernist's creed -- The shoulders of giants -- Poverty's Prism -- Epilogue -- About BHCHP -- About the author -- Acknowledgements.

ISBN

• 0692412344
• 9780692412343

OCLC

• 921146086
• SCSB-10585862

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library