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Autore: | Mattingly Cheryl |
Titolo: | The Paradox of Hope : Journeys through a Clinical Borderland / / Cheryl Mattingly |
Pubblicazione: | Berkeley, CA : , : University of California Press, , [2010] |
©2010 | |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (286 p.) |
Disciplina: | 362.198 92008996073 |
Soggetto topico: | African Americans |
African Americans - Medical care | |
Chronically ill children - Medical care - United States | |
Medical anthropology - Medical care - United States | |
Poor - United States | |
Social medicine - United States | |
Medical personnel and patient - United States | |
Soggetto non controllato: | affect theory |
african american | |
chronic disease | |
chronic illness | |
class | |
clinical narrative | |
ethnography | |
family life | |
health care delivery | |
health policy | |
health | |
hospitals | |
living while dying | |
medical humanities | |
medicine | |
modern healthcare | |
multicultural | |
nonfiction | |
poverty | |
public hospitals | |
race | |
sick children | |
social issues | |
social science | |
terminal illness | |
urban hospital | |
urban life | |
Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
Nota di contenuto: | 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 |
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. |
Titolo autorizzato: | The Paradox of Hope |
ISBN: | 1-283-27749-2 |
9786613277497 | |
0-520-94823-8 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910785432603321 |
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