Everyday Ethics

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Voices from the Front Line of Community Psychiatry

By Paul Brodwin

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Everyday Ethics delves into the complex moral challenges faced by mental health clinicians working with the most marginalised individuals in the US healthcare system. Through years of immersive fieldwork with a community psychiatry outreach team, Paul Brodwin reveals the ethical dilemmas, personal struggles, and conflicting roles these professionals encounter daily. The book highlights the tension between coercion and care, the use of power amid resistance, and the persistent effort to uphold compassion within a flawed system. It offers an insightful analysis of how clinicians attempt to reconcile their principles with the realities of mental health practice.
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This book is suited for readers interested in healthcare ethics, mental health practice, and social justice, including professionals, students, and scholars in psychiatry, social work, and bioethics.

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.

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This book explores the moral lives of mental health clinicians serving the most marginalised individuals in the US healthcare system. Drawing on years of fieldwork in a community psychiatry outreach team, Brodwin traces the ethical dilemmas and everyday struggles of frontline providers.

On the street, in staff room debates, or in private confessions, these psychiatrists and social workers confront ongoing challenges to their self-image as competent and compassionate advocates. At times, they openly question the coercion and forced-dependency built into the current system of care. At other times, they justify their use of extreme power in the face of loud opposition from clients.

This in-depth study exposes the fault lines in today's community psychiatry. It shows how people working deep inside the system struggle to maintain their ideals and manage a chronic sense of futility. Their commentaries about the obligatory and the forbidden also suggest ways to bridge formal bioethics and the realities of mental health practice.

The experiences of these clinicians pose a single overarching question: how should we bear responsibility for the most vulnerable among us?

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780520274792

Publisher: University of California Press

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 01 January 2013

Country: United States

Imprint: University of California Press

Audience: Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 18.0mm

Width: 152.0mm

Height: 229.0mm

Weight: 318g

Pages: 248

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Education & Reference Non-Fiction Paul Brodwin

About the Author

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.