Arthur Kleinman

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Arthur Kleinman MD
Arthur Michael Kleinman
Born	(1941-03-01) March 1, 1941 (age 83) New York City
Nationality	American
Other names	Arthur Michael Kleinman
Citizenship	United States
Alma mater	Stanford University, Harvard University
Spouse	Joan Kleinman (d.)
Children	Peter and Anne
Scientific career
Institutions	Harvard Medical School, Harvard University

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Arthur Michael Kleinman (born March 11, 1941) is an American

.

Kleinman’s medical anthropology research has largely focused on China. He began his work in Taiwan in 1968, and then expanded to mainland China in 1978.

At Harvard, Kleinman has taught at all levels for decades. These efforts include teaching, supervision and mentorship of undergraduate students, anthropology graduate students, medical students, and post-doctoral fellows.

Education

Arthur Kleinman received his A.B. and M.D. from

.

Career

Kleinman is the Esther and Sidney Rabb Professor of Anthropology at Harvard and professor of medical anthropology and professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School.[1]

Kleinman has held a variety of administrative positions, including chair of Harvard’s Department of Anthropology, chair of Harvard Medical School’s Department of Social Medicine, and director of Harvard’s Asia Center (2008-2016).^[2]

In 2011, Kleinman was named a Harvard College Professor and given the Distinguished Faculty Award.

In 1976, he founded the journal Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry,^[3] and was its Editor-in-Chief until 1986.^[4] The journal was continued by Byron and Mary-Jo Good and Peter J. Guarnaccia.^[5]

Kleinman directed the World Mental Health Report, released at the UN in 1995, and also directed the World Bank Out of the Shadows Report in 2016. He co-chaired the

where he chaired the technical advisory committee of the Nations for Mental Health Action Program, and in December 2002, gave the keynote address to the WHO's first international conference on global mental health research.

Writing

Kleinman has authored seven books and over 350 articles, book chapters, reviews and introductions. Perhaps Kleinman's most influential work is Patients and Healers in the Context of Culture (1980), followed by The Illness Narratives: Suffering, Healing, and the Human Condition (1988) and Social Origins of Distress and Disease: Depression, Neurasthenia, and Pain in Modern China (1986). His book, What Really Matters (Oxford University Press, 2006), addresses existential dangers and uncertainties that make moral experience, religion, and ethics so crucial to individuals and society today. This book has been translated and published in Chinese editions both in Shanghai and Taipei. His most recent book The Soul of Care: The Moral Education of a Husband and a Doctor was published by Penguin in 2019.

Kleinman is the co-author of four books including A Passion for Society: How We Think About Human Suffering (2016) with Iain Wilkinson and Deep China: The Moral Life of the Person. What Anthropology and Psychiatry Tell us about China Today (2011) with six of his former students. Kleinman has co-authored many works with other psychiatrists, anthropologists and researchers in the field of global health including the late

(his former teacher).

Kleinman is co-editor of 29 volumes, including: Social Suffering; Culture and Depression; SARS in China; Global Pharmaceuticals; Subjectivity: Ethnographic Investigations; Reimagining Global Health: An Introduction; The Culture of Illness and Psychiatric Practice in Africa; and The Ground Between: Anthropologists Engage Philosophy. He has also co-edited 11 special issues of journals and published essays in The Lancet, New England Journal of Medicine, The Harvard Magazine, among other media.

Awards and recognition

Kleinman is a member of the

and the American Anthropological Association.

Kleinman has twice given the Distinguished Lecture at NIH and was a member of its Council of Councils (the advisory board to the director) from 2007 to 2011. He was also appointed by the Secretary of the

Fogarty International Center

, National Institutes of Health. In 2003, Kleinman chaired the Selection Committee for the NIH's new Pioneer Awards.

In 2006, he received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the

Most recently, he was elected Honorary Academician, Academia Sinica, Taiwan.

Personal life

Kleinman was born and raised in New York. He was married to the late Joan Kleinman (who died in 2011), a sinologist and his research collaborator, for 45 years. They have two children (Peter and Anne) and four grandchildren (Gabriel, Kendall, Allegra and Clayton).

Selected list of published works

• Patients and healers in the context of culture : an exploration of the borderland between anthropology, medicine, and psychiatry / Arthur Kleinman. -- University of California Press, 1980.
• Culture and depression : studies in the anthropology and cross-cultura l psychiatry of affect and disorder / edited by Arthur Kleinman and Byron Good. -- University of California Press, 1985. --
• Social origins of distress and disease : depression, neurasthenia, and pain in modern China / Kleinman—Yale Univ ersity Press, 1986
• The illness narratives: suffering, healing, and the human condition / Kleinman—Basic Books, 1988
• Rethinking psychiatry : from cultural category to personal experience / Kleinman; Free Press, 1991
  ISBN 0-02-917441-4
• Social suffering / edited by Kleinman, Veena Das, and Margaret Lock—University of California Press, 1997 & Oxford University Press, 1997
• Writing at the margin : discourse between anthropology and medicine / Kleinman. -- University of California Press, 1995
• What really matters: living a moral life amidst uncertainty and danger / Kleinman—Oxford University Press, 2006. Translated into Chinese: Shanghai Joint Publishing Company, Shanghai, P.R. China, 2007; translated in Chinese: PsyGarden Publishing Company, Taiwan, 2007
• The soul of care: the moral education of a husband and a doctor / Kleinman— Penguin, description and arrow-searchable preview, 2019

Further reading

• Richard A. Shweder (1988), "Review of Kleinman's (1986) book Social Origins of Distress and Disease",
  S2CID 143493154
  (See also chapter 8 in Thinking through cultures, which is substantially the same text with minor amendments).
• Shweder, Richard A (1991), "Suffering in Style: On Arthur Kleinman", Thinking through Cultures: Expeditions in Cultural Psychology, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, pp. 313–331,
  ISBN 0-674-88416-7
• Peter J. Guarnaccia (2003), "Editorial",
  PMID 14672095
• The Arc of Interference: Medical Anthropology for Worlds on Edge. Joao Biehl and Vincanne Adams, eds. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. 2023 (In Press). A Festschrift to honor Arthur Kleinman, including an introduction by the late Paul Farmer.
• Kleinman, A. "An Intellectual Journey and Personal Odyssey." Bulletin of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Spring 2015 LXVIII, No. 3, 58-59.

Notes

1. ^ "Arthur Michael Kleinman". ghsm.hms.harvard.edu. Retrieved 2023-01-26.
2. ^ "Arthur Kleinman". anthropology.fas.harvard.edu. Retrieved 2023-01-26.
3. S2CID 189891520
4. ^ Arthur Kleinman, Curriculum Vitae (PDF), retrieved 8 March 2022
5. PMID 14672095
6. ^ "Arthur Kleinman". Universiteit Leiden. Retrieved 2023-01-26.

References

• Mitsuho Ikeda (2002). "Bibliography of Arthur Kleinman, 1941-". Archived from the original on 2006-01-17. Retrieved 2006-04-13.
• "Department of Social Medicine People". Harvard Medical School. Archived from the original on 17 January 2007. Retrieved 2006-12-16.