"Save my kid" : how families of critically ill children cope, hope, and negotiate an unequal healthcare system

A frank analysis of the medical and emotional inequalities that pervade the healthcare process for critically ill children Families who have a child with a life-threatening illness face a daunting road ahead of them, one that not only upends their everyday lives, but also strikes at the very heart o...

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Tác giả chính: Gengler, Amanda M. (Tác giả)
Định dạng: Licensed eBooks
Ngôn ngữ:Tiếng Anh
Được phát hành: New York : New York University Press, 2020.
Truy cập trực tuyến:https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=2090061
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  • Cover
  • Title
  • Copyright
  • Dedication
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Part I: Families in Crisis. 1. Hope is a thing with feathers
  • 2. Studying families of critically ill children
  • Part II: Unequal illnesses.3. Care-captaining: climbing the rungs of the US healthcare system
  • 4. Care-entrusting: staying on the medical sidelines
  • 5. Blending and switching care strategies: finding emotional equilibrium
  • Part III: Tangled Up in Hope.6. When everything is not enough
  • 7. The fragility and tenacity of hope
  • 8. Emotionally perilous paths: illness management, emotion management, and the production of healthcare inequalities
  • Acknowledgments
  • Appendix A: Doing fieldwork in emotionally fraught settings: a brief reflection
  • Appendix B: Family and physician demographics
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index
  • About the Author.