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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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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Society & culture: general Social groups

• Full title: Moral Laboratories
• Subtitle: Family Peril and the Struggle for a Good Life
• Author: Cheryl Mattingly
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 280
• EAN: 9780520281196
• ISBN: 0520281195
• ID: 04618276
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Weight: 508 g
• Dimensions: 157 × 231 × 22 mm
• Date of publishing: 03. October 2014

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