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Author Mattingly, Cheryl, 1951-

Title The paradox of hope : journeys through a clinical borderland / Cheryl Mattingly
Published Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2010

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 268 pages)
Contents The lobby -- Narrative matters -- Border trouble -- Widening the gap : the creation of a conflict drama -- Plotting hope -- Daydreaming : Captain Hook gets speech therapy -- Fleeting hope -- Narrative phenomenology and the practice of hope
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."--Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject African Americans -- Medical care -- United States
Chronically ill children -- Medical care -- United States
Medical anthropology -- United States
Poor -- Medical care -- United States.
Social medicine -- United States
Medical personnel and patient -- United States
Chronic diseases.
Ethnology.
Children.
Narrative medicine.
Poverty.
African Americans.
Professional-Family Relations
Chronic Disease
Anthropology, Cultural
Child
Narration
Poverty
Black or African American
Ethnology
social anthropology.
ethnology.
children (people by age group)
poverty.
African American.
HEALTH & FITNESS -- Health Care Issues.
MEDICAL -- Public Health.
MEDICAL -- Health Policy.
HEALTH & FITNESS -- Diseases -- General.
MEDICAL -- Diseases.
MEDICAL -- Health Care Delivery.
Poverty
Narrative medicine
Ethnology
Chronic diseases
Children
African Americans
African Americans -- Medical care
Chronically ill children -- Medical care
Medical anthropology
Medical personnel and patient
Poor -- Medical care
Social medicine
Medicinsk antropologi -- Förenta staterna.
Fattigdom -- Förenta staterna.
SUBJECT United States https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D014481
Subject United States
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780520948235
0520948238
1283277492
9781283277495