Abstract

Por mais de quatorze anos, a antropologa Cheryl Mattingly acompanhou cinquenta familias norte-americanas da periferia de Los Angeles que se dedicavam aos cuidados intensivos de criancas com deficiencia ou com doencas cronicas e incapacitantes. Mattingly nos apresenta, em Moral laboratories: family peril and struggle for a good life, sob forte influencia da filosofia, os diversos impasses morais e eticos incutidos nas decisoes medicas e familiares vividas por cinco dessas familias ”“ nesse caso, todas negras.

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