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The Paradox of Hope: Journeys through a Clinical Borderland

By Cheryl Mattingly

Book information

Publisher
University of California Press
Year
2010
ISBN
9780520948235
DOI
10.1525/9780520948235
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
686 kB (702648 bytes)
Pages
288\284
Library
degruyter.com
Time added
2023-08-21 16:35:00

Description

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.

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