Moral laboratories : family peril and the struggle for a good life /
Mattingly, Cheryl,1951-author.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-252) and index.
Part One. First Person Virtue Ethics -- Experimental Soccer and the Good Life -- First Person Virtue Ethics and the Anthropology of Morality -- Part Two. Moral Becoming and the Everyday -- Home Experiments : Scenes from the Moral Ordinary -- Luck, Friendship, and the Narrative Self -- Moral Tragedy : The Perils of a Superstrong Black Mother -- The Flight of the Blue Balloons : Narrative Suspense and the Play of Possible Selves -- Part Three. Moral Pluralism as Cultural Possibility -- Rival Moral Traditions and the Miracle Baby --  Dueling Confessions : Revolution in the First Person -- Tragedy, Possibility, and Philosophical Anthropology.
Chronically ill children
Children with disabilities
African American families
Medical anthropology
Medical ethics