Arthur Kleinman

Arthur Kleinman (b. 1941) is a prominent American psychiatrist and researcher of mental illness, medical anthropology and cross-cultural psychology teaching at Harvard University. He is particularly renowned for his work on mental illness and medical anthropology in Chinese culture. Kleinman is married to Joan Kleinman, a sinologist at Harvard.

Kleinman has written on cross-cultural psychiatry, social suffering, the experience of pain, disability, public health and culture-bound syndromes.

Bibliographies

http://www.let.kumamoto-u.ac.jp/cs/cu/0012.html

See also

• Paul Farmer
• Veena Das
• Margaret Locke
• Michael Phillips
• Medical anthropology
• Byron Good
• Mary Delvecchio Good
• Tsung-yi Lin
• Leon Eisenberg