The Paradox of Hope
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The Paradox of Hope

Journeys through a Clinical Borderland

  1. 286 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

The Paradox of Hope

Journeys through a Clinical Borderland

About this book

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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Information

Year
2010
Print ISBN
9780520267350
eBook ISBN
9780520948235
Edition
1

Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Dedication Page
  5. Contents
  6. Prologue
  7. Acknowledgments
  8. 1. The Lobby
  9. 2. Narrative Matters
  10. 3. Border Trouble
  11. 4. Widening the Gap: The Creation of a Conflict Drama
  12. 5. Plotting Hope
  13. 6. Daydreaming: Captain Hook Gets Speech Therapy
  14. 7. Fleeting Hope
  15. 8. Narrative Phenomenology and the Practice of Hope
  16. Notes
  17. References
  18. Index

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