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 th[...]
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.[...]
Moral Laboratories is an engaging ethnography and a groundbreaking foray into the anthropology of morality. It takes us on a journey into the lives of African American families caring for children with serious chronic medical conditions, and it foregrounds the uncertainty that affects their struggle[...]
There is a growing interest in âtherapeutic narrativesâ and the relation between narrative and healing. Cheryl Mattinglyâs ethnography of the practice of occupational therapy in a North American hospital investigates the complex interconnections between narrative and experience in cli[...]