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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.

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"This work of outstanding scholarship should be a great addition to collections of medical anthropology and health studies." Choice

Table of Contents
Prologue Acknowledgments 1. The Lobby 2. Narrative Matters 3. Border Trouble 4. Widening the Gap: The Creation of a Conflict Drama 5. Plotting Hope 6. Daydreaming: Captain Hook Gets Speech Therapy 7. Fleeting Hope 8. Narrative Phenomenology and the Practice of Hope Notes References Index

The Paradox of Hope

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      Publisher: University of California Press
      Publication Date: 02/12/2010
      ISBN13: 9780520267350, 978-0520267350
      ISBN10: 0520267354
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      Ethnic studies / Ethnicity

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      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.

      Trade Review
      "This work of outstanding scholarship should be a great addition to collections of medical anthropology and health studies." Choice

      Table of Contents
      Prologue Acknowledgments 1. The Lobby 2. Narrative Matters 3. Border Trouble 4. Widening the Gap: The Creation of a Conflict Drama 5. Plotting Hope 6. Daydreaming: Captain Hook Gets Speech Therapy 7. Fleeting Hope 8. Narrative Phenomenology and the Practice of Hope Notes References Index

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