Cheryl Mattingly

Broschiertes Buch

Moral Laboratories

Family Peril and the Struggle for a Good Life

Beschreibung

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.

Autor

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of California Press
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Oktober 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 149mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 436g
• ISBN-13: 9780520281202
• ISBN-10: 0520281209
• Artikelnr.: 40789068