Moral Laboratories: Family Peril and the Struggle for a Good

Moral Laboratories: Family Peril and the Struggle for a Good Life

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.Â
Country USA
Manufacturer University of California Press
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2014-10-03
Format Kindle eBook
EANs 9780520959538

Country	USA
Manufacturer	University of California Press
Binding	Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate	2014-10-03
Format	Kindle eBook
EANs	9780520959538

Moral Laboratories: Family Peril and the Struggle for a Good Life