Moral laboratories : family peril and the struggle for a good life / / Cheryl Mattingly
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| Autore: |
Mattingly Cheryl <1951->
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| Titolo: |
Moral laboratories : family peril and the struggle for a good life / / Cheryl Mattingly
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| Pubblicazione: | Oakland, California : , : University of California Press, , 2014 |
| ©2014 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (280 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 362.19892009794/93 |
| Soggetto topico: | Chronically ill children - Medical care - Moral and ethical aspects - California - Los Angeles County |
| Children with disabilities - Medical care - Moral and ethical aspects - California - Los Angeles County | |
| African American families - California - Los Angeles County | |
| Medical anthropology - California - Los Angeles County | |
| Medical ethics - California - Los Angeles County | |
| Soggetto non controllato: | african 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 | |
| Classificazione: | SOC002000MED035000SOC026000 |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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 -- Index |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Moral laboratories |
| ISBN: | 0-520-28120-9 |
| 0-520-95953-1 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910826956203321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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