The Paradox of Hope : Journeys through a Clinical Borderland / / Cheryl Mattingly

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910459625503321
• Autore: Mattingly Cheryl
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Berkeley, CA : , : University of California Press, , [2010]; ©2010
• ISBN: 1-283-27749-2; 9786613277497; 0-520-94823-8
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (286 p.)
• Disciplina: 362.198 92008996073
• Soggetti: African Americans - United States; African Americans --Medical care --United States; Child - United States; Children - United States; Chronic Disease - United States; Chronically ill children --Medical care --United States; Medical anthropology - United States; Medical anthropology --United States; Medicla personnel and patient --United States; Poor - Medical care - United States; Poor --Medical care --United States; Poverty - United States; Professional-Family Relations - United States; Social medicine - United States; Social Medicine --United States; Stress, Psychological - psychology - United States; African Americans - Medical care - United States; Chronically ill children - Medical care - United States; Medical anthropology - Medical care - United States; Poor - United States; Medical personnel and patient - United States; Data Collection; Anthropology; Disease Attributes; Interpersonal Relations; Age Groups; Socioeconomic Factors; Ethnic Groups; Communication; Social Problems; African Continental Ancestry Group; Sociology; Continental Population Groups; Pathologic Processes; Persons; Epidemiologic Methods; Psychology, Social; Health Care Evaluation Mechanisms; Information Science; Social Sciences; Population Groups; Population Characteristics; Behavior; Poverty; Child; Narration; Anthropology, Cultural; Chronic Disease; Professional-Family Relations; African Americans; Behavior and Behavior Mechanisms; Quality of Health Care; Investigative Techniques; Pathological Conditions, Signs and Symptoms; Public Health; Health Care; Health Care Quality, Access, and Evaluation; Environment and Public Health; Diseases; Health & Biological Sciences; Ethnic Minorities & Public Health; Electronic books.; North America; Americas; United States
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- 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
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.