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Moral Laboratories

Family Peril and the Struggle for a Good Life

by Cheryl Mattingly
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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.

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  • Release date

    October 3, 2014

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      • ISBN: 9780520959538

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      • ISBN: 9780520959538
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  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • Library Journal

      November 1, 2014

      Mattingly presents an anthropology of morality based on her research of black families who care for children with serious and chronic medical conditions.

      Copyright 2014 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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