The Paradox of Hope: Journeys Through a Clinical Borderland (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780520267350)

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.

Author: Cheryl Mattingly
ISBN-10: 0520267354
ISBN-13: 9780520267350
Publisher: University of California Press
Language: English
Published: 12/02/2010
Pages: 288
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.88lbs
Size: 8.80h x 5.90w x 0.80d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 09/01/2011