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The paradox of hope : a call to suffering / Cheryl Mattingly.
De Gruyter University of California Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013 Available online
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mattingly, Cheryl, 1951-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African Americans--Medical care.
- African Americans.
- Chronically ill children--Medical care--United States.
- Chronically ill children.
- Medical anthropology--United States.
- Medical anthropology.
- Medical personnel and patient--United States.
- Medical personnel and patient.
- Poor--Medical care--United States.
- Poor.
- Social medicine--United States.
- Social medicine.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (286 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Berkeley : University of California Press, c2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- Front matter
- Contents
- Prologue
- Acknowledgments
- 1. The Lobby
- 2. Narrative Matters
- 3. Border Trouble
- 4. Widening the Gap: The Creation of a Conflict Drama
- 5. Plotting Hope
- 6. Daydreaming: Captain Hook Gets Speech Therapy
- 7. Fleeting Hope
- 8. Narrative Phenomenology and the Practice of Hope
- Notes
- References
- Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)
- ISBN:
- 9786613277497
- 9781283277495
- 1283277492
- 9780520948235
- 0520948238
- OCLC:
- 699475041
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