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Moral Laboratories: Family Peril and the Struggle for a Good Life

By Cheryl Mattingly

Book information

Publisher
University of California Press
Year
2014
ISBN
9780520959538, 9780520281196
LCC
RJ380 -- .M28 2014eb
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
1 MB (1117466 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
323\0
Time added
2023-08-26 03:32:35
Chronically ill children -- Medical care -- Moral

Description

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 struggles for a good life. Challenging depictions of moral transformation as possible only in moments of breakdown or in radical breaches from the ordinary, it offers a compelling portrait of the transformative powers embedded in day-to-day existence. From soccer fields to dinner tables, the everyday emerges as a moral laboratory for reshaping moral life. Cheryl Mattingly offers vivid and heart-wrenching stories to elaborate a first-person ethical framework, forcefully showing the limits of third-person renderings of morality.

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