Cheryl Mattingly

Moral Laboratories

Family Peril and the Struggle for a Good Life

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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.… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-0-520-95953-8
EAN: 9780520959538
Produktnummer: 21596486
Verlag: Vanderbilt University Press
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
Seitenangabe: 280 S.
Plattform: EPUB
Masse: 1'124 KB
Auflage: 1. Auflage

Über den Autor

Cheryl Mattingly is Professor in the Department of Anthropology and the Division of Occupational Science at the University of Southern California. She is also a Senior Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Studies, Aarhus University, Denmark. She is the award-winning author of The Paradox of Hope: Journeys through a Clinical Borderland and Healing Dramas and Clinical Plots: The Narrative Structure of Experience and coeditor, with Linda Garro, of Narrative and Cultural Construction of Illness and Healing, among other books.