TY - BOOK ID - 135521592 TI - The paradox of hope PY - 2010 SN - 1283277492 9786613277497 0520948238 9780520948235 9781283277495 9780520267343 0520267346 9780520267350 0520267354 PB - Berkeley University of California Press DB - UniCat KW - African Americans. KW - African Americans KW - Chronically ill children KW - Medical anthropology KW - Poor KW - Social medicine KW - Medical personnel and patient KW - Medical care. KW - Medical care KW - affect theory. KW - african american. KW - chronic disease. KW - chronic illness. KW - class. KW - clinical narrative. KW - ethnography. KW - family life. KW - health care delivery. KW - health policy. KW - health. KW - hospitals. KW - living while dying. KW - medical humanities. KW - medicine. KW - modern healthcare. KW - multicultural. KW - nonfiction. KW - poverty. KW - public hospitals. KW - race. KW - sick children. KW - social issues. KW - social science. KW - terminal illness. KW - urban hospital. KW - urban life. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:135521592 AB - 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. ER -