A01=Cheryl Mattingly
affect theory
african american
Author_Cheryl Mattingly
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chronic disease
chronic illness
class
clinical narrative
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ethnography
family life
health
health care delivery
health policy
hospitals
living while dying
medical humanities
medicine
modern healthcare
multicultural
nonfiction
poverty
public hospitals
race
sick children
social issues
social science
terminal illness
urban hospital
urban life
Product details
- ISBN 9780520267350
- Weight: 408g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 02 Dec 2010
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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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.
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 coeditor, with Linda Garro, of Narrative and Cultural Construction of Illness and Healing (UC Press), among other books.
