Patricia Kullberg
Author
Publisher
Oregon State University Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
162 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
On the Ragged Edge of Medicine offers a glimpse into a medical practice for the homeless and urban poor. Told through fifteen patient vignettes, and drawn from the author's decades of experience in Portland, Oregon, 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. Kullberg's stories show the direct and...