The Coproduction of Moral Discourse in U.S. Community Psychiatry

Anthropologists often criticize the discipline of bioethics because its remote, abstract theories fail to capture how front‐line clinicians experience and resolve moral uncertainty. The critique overlooks, however, the ways that everyday, emergent moral discourse is influenced—over time and through several mediations—by formal ethical notions. High‐order ethical pronouncements become sedimented into the conditions of work, illustrated in this...