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The paradox of hope
2010
Overview
Grounded in intimate moments of family life in and out of hospitals, this book explores the hope that inspires us to try to create lives worth living, even when no cure is in sight. The Paradox of Hope focuses on a group of African American families in a multicultural urban environment, many of them poor and all of them with children who have been diagnosed with serious chronic medical conditions. Cheryl Mattingly proposes a narrative phenomenology of practice as she explores case stories in this highly readable study. Depicting the multicultural urban hospital as a border zone where race, class, and chronic disease intersect, this theoretically innovative study illuminates communities of care that span both clinic and family and shows how hope is created as an everyday reality amid trying circumstances.
Publisher
University of California Press
Subject
/ African Americans -- Medical care -- United States
/ African Americans -- United States
/ Anthropology, Cultural -- United States
/ Child
/ Chronic Disease -- United States
/ Chronically ill children -- Medical care -- United States
/ class
/ health
/ MEDICAL
/ MEDICAL / Health Care Delivery
/ Medical anthropology -- United States
/ Medical personnel and patient
/ Medical personnel and patient -- United States
/ medicine
/ Poor
/ Poor -- Medical care -- United States
/ Poverty
/ Professional-Family Relations
/ Professional-Family Relations -- United States
/ race
/ Social medicine -- United States
ISBN
9780520267350, 0520267354, 9780520948235, 0520948238, 9780520267343, 0520267346
