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



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Autore: Mattingly Cheryl <1951-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: Moral laboratories : family peril and the struggle for a good life / / Cheryl Mattingly Visualizza cluster
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  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-520-28120-9
0-520-95953-1
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910826956203321
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