Moral laboratories : family peril and the struggle for a good life / Cheryl Mattingly.

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Mattingly, Cheryl, 1951-

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Oakland, California : University of California Press, 2014.Description: 1 online resource (xviii, 261 pages)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

1322076111
9781322076119
9780520959538
0520959531

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Moral laboratories.DDC classification:

362.19892009794/93

LOC classification:

RJ380

NLM classification:

WS 210

Other classification:

SOC002000 | MED035000 | SOC026000

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Contents:

Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Prologue; PART ONE: FIRST PERSON VIRTUE ETHICS; 1. Experimental Soccer and the Good Life; 2. First Person Virtue Ethics and the Anthropology of Morality; PART TWO: MORAL BECOMING AND THE EVERYDAY; 3. Home Experiments: Scenes from the Moral Ordinary; 4. Luck, Friendship, and the Narrative Self; 5. Moral Tragedy: The Perils of a Superstrong Black Mother; 6. The Flight of the Blue Balloons: Narrative Suspense and the Play of Possible Selves; PART THREE: MORAL PLURALISM AS CULTURAL POSSIBILITY; 7. Rival Moral Traditions and the Miracle Baby.

8. Dueling Confessions: Revolution in the First Person9. Tragedy, Possibility, and Philosophical Anthropology; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z.

Summary: 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 emerge.

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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 emerge.