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

• Autore: Mattingly Cheryl <1951->
• 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 genere / forma: Electronic books.
• 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.: 9910458703203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II