The paradox of hope : journeys through a clinical borderland / Cheryl Mattingly.

  • Mattingly, Cheryl, 1951-
Date:
[2010]
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Description

Grounded in intimate moments of family life in and out of hospitals, 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 serious chronic medical conditions. Depicting the urban hospital as a border zone where race, class, and chronic disease intersect, Cheryl Mattingly describes communities of care that span both clinic and family to show how and why hope is created as an everyday reality amid trying circumstances. Her highly readable, theoretically innovative study proposes a narrative phenomenology of practice as it explores these rich case stories.

Publication/Creation

Berkeley, California : University of California Press, [2010]

Physical description

xv, 268 pages ; 23 cm

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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Where to find it

  • LocationStatus
    History of Medicine
    BA.W.6
    Open shelves

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ISBN

  • 9780520267343
  • 0520267346
  • 9780520267350
  • 0520267354