Everyday Ethics: Voices from the Front Line of Community Psychiatry - Tapa blanda

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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.

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"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

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