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1 online resource (xviii, 261 pages) |
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text file |
| Summary |
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 emerge. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Machine generated contents note: Acknowledgments -- Prologue -- Part One. First Person Virtue Ethics -- 1. Experimental Soccer and the Good Life -- 2. First Person Virtue Ethics and the Anthropology of Morality -- Part Two. Moral Becoming and the Everyday -- 3. Home Experiments: Scenes from the Moral Ordinary -- 4. Luck, Friendship, and the Narrative Self -- 5. Moral Tragedy: The Perils of a Superstrong Black Mother -- 6. The Flight of the Blue Balloons: Narrative Suspense and the Play of Possible Selves -- Part Three. Moral Pluralism as Cultural Possibility -- 7. Rival Moral Traditions and the Miracle Baby -- 8. Dueling Confessions: Revolution in the First Person -- 9. Tragedy, Possibility, and Philosophical Anthropology -- Bibliography -- Index. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Chronically ill children -- Medical care -- Moral and ethical aspects -- California -- Los Angeles County.
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Chronically ill children -- Medical care. |
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California. |
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California -- Los Angeles County. |
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Chronically ill children. |
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Children with disabilities -- Medical care -- Moral and ethical aspects -- California -- Los Angeles County.
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Children with disabilities -- Medical care. |
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African American families -- California -- Los Angeles County.
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African American families. |
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Medical anthropology -- California -- Los Angeles County.
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Medical anthropology. |
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Medical ethics -- California -- Los Angeles County.
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Medical ethics. |
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Chronic Disease -- ethnology. |
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Los Angeles. |
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Morals. |
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Black or African American -- ethnology. |
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Child. |
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Disabled Children. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Mattingly, Cheryl, 1951- Moral laboratories. Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2014] 9780520281196 (DLC) 2014006568 (OCoLC)876431933 |
| ISBN |
1322076111 (electronic book) |
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9781322076119 (electronic book) |
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9780520959538 (electronic book) |
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0520959531 (electronic book) |
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9780520281196 |
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0520281195 |
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9780520281202 |
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0520281209 |
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