The paradox of hope : a call to suffering / / Cheryl Mattingly

• Autore: Mattingly Cheryl <1951->
• Pubblicazione: Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2010
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (286 p.)
• Disciplina: 362.198/92008996073
• Soggetto topico: African Americans - Medical care; Chronically ill children - Medical care - United States; Medical anthropology - United States; Medical personnel and patient - United States; Poor - Medical care - United States; Social medicine - United States
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• 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.: 9910811440603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II