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Moral Laboratories - Family Peril and the Struggle for a Good Life (Hardcover)
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Moral Laboratories - Family Peril and the Struggle for a Good Life (Hardcover)
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"Moral Laboratories" is at once an 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 that affects their struggles for a good life.
Challenging depictions of moral transformation as only possible in
moments of breakdown or in radical breaches from the ordinary, 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.
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