The Paradox of Hope - Journeys through a Clinical Borderland (Hardcover, New)

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.

General

Imprint:	University of California Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	December 2010
First published:	2010
Authors:	Cheryl Mattingly
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 23mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover - Cloth over boards
Pages:	288
Edition:	New
ISBN-13:	978-0-520-26734-3
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Ethnic studies > General Books > Medicine > General issues > Health systems & services > General Promotions
LSN:	0-520-26734-6
Barcode:	9780520267343

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