Save My Kid: How Families of Critically Ill Children Cope, Hope, and Negotiate an Unequal Healthcare System

by Amanda Gengler

Book Overview

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 of parenthood. In "Save My Kid," Amanda M. Gengler traces the emotional difficulties these families navigate as they confront a fundamentally...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1479864625
• ISBN13: 9781479864621
• Release Date: January 2020
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"