03834nam 2200721 450 991045870320332120210421212954.00-520-28120-90-520-95953-110.1525/9780520959538(CKB)2550000001345971(EBL)1711014(OCoLC)889552169(SSID)ssj0001334734(PQKBManifestationID)11914153(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001334734(PQKBWorkID)11271331(PQKB)10030246(StDuBDS)EDZ0000986064(MiAaPQ)EBC1711014(MdBmJHUP)muse37632(DE-B1597)519749(DE-B1597)9780520959538(Au-PeEL)EBL1711014(CaPaEBR)ebr10915552(CaONFJC)MIL638862(EXLCZ)99255000000134597120140902h20142014 uy 0engur|||||||||||txtccrMoral laboratories family peril and the struggle for a good life /Cheryl MattinglyOakland, California :University of California Press,2014.©20141 online resource (280 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-520-28119-5 1-322-07611-1 Includes bibliographical references and index.Front matter --Contents --Acknowledgments --Prologue --Chapter 1. Experimental Soccer and the Good Life --Chapter 2. First Person Virtue Ethics and the Anthropology of Morality --Chapter 3. Home Experiments --Chapter 4. Luck, Friendship, and the Narrative Self --Chapter 5. Moral Tragedy --Chapter 6. The Flight of the Blue Balloons --Chapter 7. Rival Moral Traditions and the Miracle Baby --Chapter 8. Dueling Confessions --Chapter 9. Tragedy, Possibility, and Philosophical Anthropology --Notes --Bibliography --IndexMoral 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. Chronically ill childrenMedical careMoral and ethical aspectsCaliforniaLos Angeles CountyChildren with disabilitiesMedical careMoral and ethical aspectsCaliforniaLos Angeles CountyAfrican American familiesCaliforniaLos Angeles CountyMedical anthropologyCaliforniaLos Angeles CountyMedical ethicsCaliforniaLos Angeles CountyElectronic books.Chronically ill childrenMedical careMoral and ethical aspectsChildren with disabilitiesMedical careMoral and ethical aspectsAfrican American familiesMedical anthropologyMedical ethics362.19892009794/93Mattingly Cheryl1951-1038189MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910458703203321Moral laboratories2459618UNINA