@inbook{10.1525/j.ctt24hs0n.4, ISBN = {9780520267121}, URL = {http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/j.ctt24hs0n.4}, abstract = {This book is an ethnographic study of ethical decision making in community psychiatry. In developed societies worldwide, the majority of people with severe psychiatric symptoms spend most of their lives outside hospital walls. But in the United States, people who are poor, alienated from their families, and dependent on public services face enormous obstacles to decent outpatient care. They rely on a fragmented collection of emergency rooms, crisis centers, and case management programs. The pace of work in these settings is rushed, the resources inadequate, and the possibility of failure ever present. I spent two years alongside frontline mental health}, bookauthor = {Paul Brodwin}, booktitle = {The Fourth Trimester: Understanding, Protecting, and Nurturing an Infant through the First Three Months}, edition = {1}, pages = {1--26}, publisher = {University of California Press}, title = {INTRODUCTION: The Terrain of Everyday Ethics}, year = {2013} }