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.
Produkteigenschaften
- Artikelnummer: 9780520281196
- Medium: Buch
- ISBN: 978-0-520-28119-6
- Verlag: University of California Press
- Erscheinungstermin: 03.10.2014
- Sprache(n): Englisch
- Auflage: 1. Auflage 2014
- Produktform: Gebunden, Cloth Over Boards
- Gewicht: 510 g
- Seiten: 280
- Format (B x H x T): 158 x 237 x 24 mm
- Ausgabetyp: Kein, Unbekannt