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.Â
Innehållsförteckning
Acknowledgments Â
Prologue Â
Part One. First Person Virtue Ethics
1. Experimental Soccer and the Good Life Â
2. First Person Virtue Ethics and the Anthropology of Morality Â
Part Two. Moral Becoming and the Everyday
3. Home Experiments: Scenes from the Moral Ordinary Â
4. Luck, Friendship, and the Narrative Self Â
5. Moral Tragedy: The Perils of a Superstrong Black Mother Â
6. The Flight of the Blue Balloons: Narrative Suspense and the Play of Possible Selves Â
Part Three. Moral Pluralism as Cultural Possibility
7. Rival Moral Traditions and the Miracle Baby Â
8. Dueling Confessions: Revolution in the First Person Â
9. Tragedy, Possibility, and Philosophical Anthropology Â
Bibliography Â
Index
Om författaren
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.
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