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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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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

Everyday Ethics

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      Publisher: University of California Press
      Publication Date: 01/01/2013
      ISBN13: 9780520274792, 978-0520274792
      ISBN10: 0520274792
      Also in:
      Medical ethics and professional conduct Anthropology

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      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.

      Table of Contents
      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

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