Arthur Kleinman is an American psychiatrist and social anthropologist, born on March 11, 1941, who is professor of medical anthropology, psychiatry, and global health and social medicine at Harvard University. His research in medical anthropology has focused largely on China, beginning with fieldwork in Taiwan in 1968 and expanding to mainland China in 1978. At Harvard he has taught and mentored students at every level, from undergraduates through anthropology graduate students, medical students and postdoctoral fellows, helping to integrate psychiatry, anthropology and global health as a combined field of study.
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Birth DateSourced to the subject's own account Birth YearSourced to the subject's own account BirthplaceSourced to the subject's own account Nationality / CultureSourced to the subject's own account Defining ContributionSourced to the subject's own accountA medical anthropologist whose research, centered on China from fieldwork begun in Taiwan in 1968 and expanded to mainland China in 1978, helped establish medical anthropology as a field bridging psychiatry, anthropology and global health at Harvard. 1 Notable WorkSourced to the subject's own accountPatients and Healers in the Context of Culture 1 In the Other Atlases
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Arthur Michael Kleinman (born March 11, 1941) is an American psychiatrist, social anthropologist and a professor of medical anthropology, psychiatry and global health and social medicine at Harvard University.
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Kleinman was born and raised in New York.
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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).
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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.
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