The paradox of hope : journeys through a clinical borderland
by
Mattingly, Cheryl, 1951-
Title
:
The paradox of hope : journeys through a clinical borderland
Author
:
Mattingly, Cheryl, 1951-
ISBN
:
9780520948235
9781283277495
Publication Information
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Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2010.
Physical Description
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1 online resource (xv, 268 pages)
Abstract
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"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.
Subject Term
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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 Disease.
African Americans.
Anthropology, Cultural.
Child.
Narration.
Poverty.
Professional-Family Relations.
Electronic Access
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Library | Material Type | Item Barcode | Shelf Number | [[missing key: search.ChildField.HOLDING]] | Status |
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Online Library | E-Book | 375158-1001 | ONLINE | | Elektronik Kütüphane |