Moral Laboratories
：Family Peril and the Struggle for a Good Life
Publication subTitle ：Family Peril and the Struggle for a Good Life
Author： Mattingly> Cheryl
Publisher： University Of California Press
Publication year： 2014
E-ISBN: 9780520959538
P-ISBN(Paperback): 9780520281196
Subject： R72 Pediatrics
Keyword： 社会学
Language： ENG
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Description
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.