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On the ragged edge of medicine : doctoring among the dispossessed / Patricia Kullberg.

Title
On the ragged edge of medicine : doctoring among the dispossessed / Patricia Kullberg.
Author
Kullberg, Patricia
Publication
Corvallis, OR : Oregon State University Press, 2017.

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162 pages; 22 cm
Summary
On the ragged edge of medicine offers a unique and personal glimpse into a medical practice for the homeless and urban poor in Portland, Oregon. Told through 15 patient vignettes and drawn from the author's decades of experience on the front lines, this revealing memoir illuminates the impact of poverty on the delivery of health services and the ways in which people adapt and survive (or don't survive) in conditions of abuse and deprivation.
Uniform Title
Project Muse UPCC books
Subject
  • Kullberg, Patricia
  • Kullberg, Patricia
  • Socioeconomic Factors
  • Ill-Housed Persons
  • Community Health Centers
  • Delivery of Health Care
  • Vulnerable Populations
  • Homeless persons > Medical care > Portland > Case studies
  • Urban poor > Medical care > Portland > Case studies
  • Oregon
Genre/Form
Personal Narrative
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Preface -- Fast water -- A delicate balance -- On a bad day -- Imagine that -- Let's have a look -- Hearts secrets -- The woman who saw the doctor too much -- Happy face -- Get real -- The visit -- Victory garden -- How Samuel got back his poise -- A morning wreck -- Cold bones -- A complicated course.
ISBN
  • 9780870718854
  • 0870718851
LCCN
^^2016049647
OCLC
  • 961205604
  • SCSB-11177492
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library