The paradox of hope : journeys through a clinical borderland /
Mattingly, Cheryl,1951-
Berkeley ; London : University of California Press,
c2010.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The lobby -- Narrative matters -- Border trouble -- Widening the gap : the creation of a conflict drama -- Plotting hope -- Daydreaming : Captain Hook gets speech therapy -- Fleeting hope -- Narrative phenomenology and the practice of hope.
African Americans
Chronically ill children
Medical anthropology
Poor
Social medicine
Medical personnel and patient