01659nam a22002057a 450000500170000000800410001702000180005802800990007608200150017510000230019024500950021326000610030830000290036936500090039852009700040765000230137765000170140065000140141770000220143120260514123556.0260514b        |||||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  a9780520281202  a: Brijwasi Book Distributorsb: H-87, Lalita Park, Laxmi Nagar, Delhic: BW/000552d: 7/5/2026  a362.19 MAT  aMattingly, Cheryl.  aMoral laboratories b: family peril and the struggle for a good life.c/ Cheryl Mattingly.  aCalifornia b: University of California press,c , 2014.  axviii, 261 p.c ; 24 cm.  b2578  a	"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".  aMoral Laboratories  aFamily Peril  aGood Life  aCheryl Mattingly.