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Offers an ethnography and a foray into the anthropology of morality. This book 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.

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"Mattingly convincingly bolsters her claims ... an excellent demonstration of ethnographic and theoretical work." -- Ezelle Sanford III Center for Medical Humanities

Table of Contents
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

Moral Laboratories

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      Publisher University of California Press
      Published 3 October 2014
      ISBN-13 9780520281202
      978-0520281202
      ISBN-10 0520281209
      Also in:
      Ethnic studies / Ethnicity Sociology and anthropology Sociology: family, kinship and relationships

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Offers an ethnography and a foray into the anthropology of morality. This book 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.

      Trade Review
      "Mattingly convincingly bolsters her claims ... an excellent demonstration of ethnographic and theoretical work." -- Ezelle Sanford III Center for Medical Humanities

      Table of Contents
      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

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