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

"Moral Laboratories is at once engaging ethnography and a groundbreaking foray in 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, foregrounding the uncertainty of their struggles for...

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1. Verfasser: Mattingly, Cheryl 1951- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Berkeley Univ. of Calif. Press 2014
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Zusammenfassung:"Moral Laboratories is at once engaging ethnography and a groundbreaking foray in 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, foregrounding the uncertainty of their struggles for a "good life." Challenging depictions of moral transformation as only possible in moments of breakdown or exceptional limit experience, it offers a compelling portrait of the transformative powers embedded in ordinary existence. From soccer fields to dinner tables, the everyday emerges as a potential "moral laboratory" for reshaping moral life. Mattingly offers vivid and heart-wrenching case stories to elaborate a first person ethical framework, forcefully showing the limits of third-person renderings of morality. In so doing, she deals with a complex history of philosophical and anthropological thinking on ethics in an accessible and immediately relevant way"..
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index
Beschreibung:XVIII, 261 S.
ISBN:9780520281196
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