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Author Mattingly, Cheryl, 1951-

Title Moral laboratories : family peril and the struggle for a good life / Cheryl Mattingly
Published Oakland, California : University of California Press, 2014

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Description 1 online resource (xviii, 261 pages)
Contents Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Prologue; PART ONE: FIRST PERSON VIRTUE ETHICS; 1. Experimental Soccer and the Good Life; 2. First Person Virtue Ethics and the Anthropology of Morality; PART TWO: MORAL BECOMING AND THE EVERYDAY; 3. Home Experiments: Scenes from the Moral Ordinary; 4. Luck, Friendship, and the Narrative Self; 5. Moral Tragedy: The Perils of a Superstrong Black Mother; 6. The Flight of the Blue Balloons: Narrative Suspense and the Play of Possible Selves; PART THREE: MORAL PLURALISM AS CULTURAL POSSIBILITY; 7. Rival Moral Traditions and the Miracle Baby
8. Dueling Confessions: Revolution in the First Person9. Tragedy, Possibility, and Philosophical Anthropology; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z
Summary 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 emerge
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject 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
Children.
Children with disabilities.
Chronic Disease -- ethnology
Morals
Black or African American -- ethnology
Child
Disabled Children
children (people by age group)
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- General.
MEDICAL -- Health Care Delivery.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- General.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Security.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Services & Welfare.
Children with disabilities
Children
African American families
Medical anthropology
Medical ethics
SUBJECT Los Angeles
Subject California -- Los Angeles County
Form Electronic book
ISBN 1322076111
9781322076119
9780520959538
0520959531