Everyday Ethics - Voices From the Front Line of Community Psychiatry

Informationen zum Autor Paul Brodwin is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and Adjunct Professor of Bioethics and Medical Humanities at the Medical College of Wisconsin. He is the editor of Biotechnology and Culture: Bodies! Anxieties! Ethics ! author of Medicine and Morality in Haiti: The Contest for Healing Power ! and coeditor of Pain as Human Experience: Anthropological Perspectives . Klappentext "Paul Brodwin's rich and historically sensitive ethnographic account! Everyday Ethics: Voices from the Front Line of Community Psychiatry ! is a highly accessible introduction to the ethical dilemmas of Assertive Community Treatment (ACT). While clearly demonstrating the system's flaws! this dynamic and well-researched work avoids the common tendency to villainize! lionize! or otherwise simplify its professionals! allowing their ethical quandaries to become our own." E. Summerson Carr! author of Scripting Addiction: The Politics of Therapeutic Talk and American Sobriety " Everyday Ethics is a crucial account that deserves to be widely read. A serious anthropological contribution to medical ethics. This book unpacks community care-so key to global health-and does the same for the ethics of practice. It leaves the reader with wonder! puzzlement and ultimately acknowledgment of the impossible yet unavoidable struggles at the heart of caregiving."-Arthur Kleinman! author of What Really Matters "This is a masterful! disturbing ethnography of ethical decision making at 'the rough edges of community psychiatry."-Mary-Jo DelVecchio Good! co-author of Shattering Culture: American Medicine Responds to Cultural Diversity Zusammenfassung Explores the moral lives of mental health clinicians serving the most marginalized individuals in the US healthcare system. This title traces the ethical dilemmas and everyday struggles of front line providers. It shows how people working deep inside the system struggle to maintain their ideals and manage a chronic sense of futility. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments Introduction: The Terrain of Everyday Ethics Background to practice 1. Genealogy of the Treatment Model 2. Expert knowledge and Encounters with Futility Tools of the trade 3. Treatment Plans: Mandatory Narratives of Progress 4. Representative Payeeships: The Deep Logic of Dependency 5. Commitment Orders: The Practice of Consent and Constraint From Everyday to Formal Ethics 6. Coercion! Confidentiality! and the Moral Contours of Work Bibliography ...

Product details

• Authors: Paul Brodwin, Brodwin Paul
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2013
• EAN: 9780520274792
• ISBN: 978-0-520-27479-2
• No. of pages: 248
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; MEDICAL / Ethics, MEDICAL / Mental Health, Mental health services, Medical ethics and professional conduct, Medical ethics & professional conduct