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.Ê

• | Author: Cheryl Mattingly
• | Publisher: University Of California Press
• | Publication Date: Oct 03, 2014
• | Number of Pages: 280 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 0520281195
• | ISBN-13: 9780520281196