· 2014
Moral Laboratories
- 478citations
- 2014year
Short summary
Everyday life, not just crisis, acts as a 'moral laboratory' where African American families caring for chronically ill children reshape their moral lives.
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Key points
- Everyday life serves as a 'moral laboratory' for moral transformation.
- Focuses on African American families caring for children with chronic medical conditions.
- Challenges the notion that morality is only transformed during breakdowns or crises.
- Presents a first-person ethical framework derived from lived experience.
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Abstract
Abstract 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.
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