Moral Laboratories
eBook - PDF

Moral Laboratories

Family Peril and the Struggle for a Good Life

  1. 280 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Moral Laboratories

Family Peril and the Struggle for a Good Life

About this book

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.Ā 

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Acknowledgments
  6. Prologue
  7. PART ONE: FIRST PERSON VIRTUE ETHICS
  8. PART TWO: MORAL BECOMING AND THE EVERYDAY
  9. PART THREE: MORAL PLURALISM AS CULTURAL POSSIBILITY
  10. Notes
  11. Bibliography
  12. Index