Moral Laboratories: Family Peril and the Struggle for a Good Life by Mattingly, Cheryl

Moral Laboratories: Family Peril and the Struggle for a Good Life (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780520281196)

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Moral Laboratories: Family Peril and the Struggle for a Good Life by Mattingly, Cheryl

Moral Laboratories: Family Peril and the Struggle for a Good Life

$95.00
Moral Laboratories: Family Peril and the Struggle for a Good Life by Mattingly, Cheryl

Moral Laboratories: Family Peril and the Struggle for a Good Life

$95.00
Format: Hardcover
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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.

Author: Cheryl Mattingly
ISBN-10: 0520281195
ISBN-13: 9780520281196
Publisher: University of California Press
Language: English
Published: 10/03/2014
Pages: 280
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.10lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.00w x 0.90d

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 11/01/2014 pg. 100
By Cheryl Mattingly
By Cheryl Mattingly
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Cheryl Mattingly is Professor in the Department of Anthropology and the Division of Occupational Science at the University of Southern California. She is also a Senior Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Studies, Aarhus University, Denmark. She is the award-winning author of The Paradox of Hope: Journeys through a Clinical Borderland and Healing Dramas and Clinical Plots: The Narrative Structure of Experience and coeditor, with Linda Garro, of Narrative and Cultural Construction of Illness and Healing, among other books.

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