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The Paradox of Hope

Journeys through a Clinical Borderland

Cheryl Mattingly author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:University of California Press

Published:25th Jan '11

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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.

"This work of outstanding scholarship should be a great addition to collections of medical anthropology and health studies." Choice

ISBN: 9780520267350

Dimensions: 229mm x 152mm x 20mm

Weight: 408g

288 pages