| Description |
1 online resource (xv, 268 pages) |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
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. |
| Summary |
"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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
African Americans -- Medical care -- United States.
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African Americans -- Medical care. |
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United States. |
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Chronically ill children -- Medical care -- United States.
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Chronically ill children -- Medical care. |
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Chronically ill children. |
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Medical anthropology -- United States.
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Medical anthropology. |
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Poor -- Medical care -- United States.
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Poor -- Medical care. |
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Social medicine -- United States.
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Social medicine. |
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Medical personnel and patient -- United States.
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Medical personnel and patient. |
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Chronic Disease. |
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Black or African American. |
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Anthropology, Cultural. |
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Child. |
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Narration. |
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Poverty. |
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Professional-Family Relations. |
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United States. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Mattingly, Cheryl, 1951- Paradox of hope. Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2010 9780520267343 (DLC) 2010009492 (OCoLC)572735119 |
| ISBN |
9780520948235 (electronic book) |
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0520948238 (electronic book) |
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1283277492 |
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9781283277495 |
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9780520267343 |
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0520267346 |
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9780520267350 |
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0520267354 |
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