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Everyday ethics : voices from the front line of community psychiatry /
This book explores the moral lives of mental health clinicians serving the most marginalized 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 front line providers. On the stre...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
[2013]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | This book explores the moral lives of mental health clinicians serving the most marginalized 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 front line 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 ti. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xiii, 233 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-219) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0520274792 9780520274792 9781283919203 1283919206 9780520954526 0520954521 |