04866nam 2201081 450 991082695620332120230803222129.00-520-28120-90-520-95953-110.1525/9780520959538(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 Countyafrican american families.american dream.american studies.anthropology of morality.anthropology.breakdown.chronic illness.cultural studies.ethical framework.ethnographic research.everyday occurances.family.first person perspective.generational.health care.health.human condition.love.moral life.moral transformation.morality.parenthood.personal experiences.politics.radical change.serious chronic medical conditions.struggle for a good life.transformative power.uncertainty.united states of america.Chronically ill childrenMedical careMoral and ethical aspectsChildren with disabilitiesMedical careMoral and ethical aspectsAfrican American familiesMedical anthropologyMedical ethics362.19892009794/93SOC002000MED035000SOC026000bisacshMattingly Cheryl1951-1131774MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910826956203321Moral laboratories3958613UNINA