: family peril and the struggle for a good life Mattingly, Cheryl. creator Cheryl Mattingly. text California : University of California press , 2014 monographic eng

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xviii, 261 p. ; 24 cm. "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". / Cheryl Mattingly. Moral Laboratories Family Peril Good Life 362.19 MAT 9780520281202 : Brijwasi Book Distributors : H-87, Lalita Park, Laxmi Nagar, Delhi 260514 20260514123556.0