Moral Laboratories : Family Peril and the Struggle for a Good Life
| Autor: | Cheryl Mattingly |
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Medical ethics--California--Los Angeles County, Children, Children with disabilities, Medical anthropology--California--Los Angeles County, Chronically ill children--Medical care--Moral and ethical aspects--California--Los Angeles County, Children with disabilities--Medical care--Moral and ethical aspects--California--Los Angeles County, African American families--California--Los Angeles County
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| Popis: | 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. |
| Databáze: | eBook Collection (EBSCOhost) |
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