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Moral laboratories family peril and the struggle for a good life / Cheryl Mattingly.
| Author/creator | Mattingly, Cheryl, 1951- |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2014] |
| Description | xviii, 261 pages ; 24 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
Chronically ill children--Medical care. --Moral and ethical aspects. --California. --Los Angeles County. |
| Contents | Machine generated contents note: Acknowledgments -- Prologue -- Part One. First Person Virtue Ethics -- 1. Experimental Soccer and the Good Life -- 2. First Person Virtue Ethics and the Anthropology of Morality -- Part Two. Moral Becoming and the Everyday -- 3. Home Experiments: Scenes from the Moral Ordinary -- 4. Luck, Friendship, and the Narrative Self -- 5. Moral Tragedy: The Perils of a Superstrong Black Mother -- 6. The Flight of the Blue Balloons: Narrative Suspense and the Play of Possible Selves -- Part Three. Moral Pluralism as Cultural Possibility -- 7. Rival Moral Traditions and the Miracle Baby -- 8. Dueling Confessions: Revolution in the First Person -- 9. Tragedy, Possibility, and Philosophical Anthropology -- Bibliography -- Index. |
| Abstract | "Moral Laboratories is at once 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 of their struggles for a "good life." Challenging depictions of moral transformation as only possible in moments of breakdown or exceptional limit experience, 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"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-252) and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2014006568 |
| ISBN | 9780520281196 (hardback) |
| ISBN | 0520281195 (hardback) |
| ISBN | 9780520281202 (paper) |
| ISBN | 0520281209 (paper) |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |