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Vanessa Oliver - Healing Home: Health and Homelessness in the Life Stories of Young Women - 9781442645318 - V9781442645318
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Healing Home: Health and Homelessness in the Life Stories of Young Women

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Description for Healing Home: Health and Homelessness in the Life Stories of Young Women hardcover. Applying a strong, articulate, and systemic analysis to on-the-ground narratives, Oliver is able to offer fresh, incisive recommendations for health and social service providers with the potential to effect real-world change for this marginalized population. Num Pages: 296 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBC; JFFB; JFSJ1; MBP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 237 x 159 x 23. Weight in Grams: 560.

Based on research that was awarded the Governor General’s Academic Gold Medal, Healing Home is an exploration of the lives and health of young women experiencing homelessness. Vanessa Oliver employs an innovative methodology that blends sociology and storytelling practices to investigate these women’s access to health services, their understandings of health and health care delivery, and their health-seeking behaviours. Through their life stories, Oliver demonstrates how personal and social experiences shape health outcomes.

In contrast to many previous studies that have focused on the deficits of these young people, Healing Home is both youth-centric and youth-positive in its approach: by ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
University of Toronto Press Canada
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
Number of Pages
296
Place of Publication
Toronto, Canada
ISBN
9781442645318
SKU
V9781442645318
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-1

About Vanessa Oliver
Vanessa Oliver is an assistant professor in the Department of Sociology at Mount Allison University.

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