The Paradox of Hope: Journeys through a Clinical Borderland
by Cheryl Mattingly
On This Page
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 show more 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. show lessTags
Members
- Recently Added By
Lists
Good Life
5 works; 1 member
Author Information
8 Works 93 Members
Cheryl Mattingly is Professor in the Department of Anthropology and the Division of Occupational Science at the University of Southern California. She is the award-winning author of Healing Dramas and Clinical Plots: The Narrative Structure of Experience and the coeditor, with Linda Garro, of Narrative and Cultural Construction of Illness and show more Healing (UC Press), among other books. show less
Classifications
- Genres
- Nonfiction, Anthropology, Science & Nature
- DDC/MDS
- 362.198 — Society, Government, and Culture Social problems and social services Social Welfare People with physical illnesses Services to people with specific conditions Gynecology and Pediatrics
- LCC
- RA448.5 .N4 .M38 — Medicine Public aspects of medicine Public aspects of medicine Public health. Hygiene. Preventive medicine
- BISAC
Statistics
- Members
- 10
- Popularity
- 2,134,026
- Languages
- English
- Media
- Paper, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 4
