Moral Laboratories : Family Peril and the Struggle for a Good Life
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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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- ISBN-13: 9780520281196
- ISBN-10: 0520281195
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publish Date: October 2014
- Dimensions: 9.1 x 6 x 0.9 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds
- Page Count: 280
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