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Arthur Kleinman (born 1941) is a prominent American psychiatrist and is the Esther and Sidney RabbProfessor of medical anthropology and cross-cultural psychiatry at Harvard University, USA. He is wellknown for his work on mental illness in Chinese culture, was the chair of the Harvard Department ofAnthropology from 2004–07 and currently serves as Director of the Harvard University Asia Center.Kleinman is married to Joan Kleinman, a sinologist at Harvard.

Since 1968, Kleinman has conducted research in Chinese society, first in Taiwan, and since 1978 inChina, on depression, somatization, epilepsy, schizophrenia and suicide, and other forms of violence. Hehas written on the intersection of public health and international issues as well as social suffering, on cross-cultural psychiatry, and on the individual experience of pain and disability.

Kleinman has done much to demonstrate that mental distress is much more likely to be expressed assomatized distress (i.e. as a bodily ailment) than as psychological distress by Chinese or East Asianpatients. He has also contributed to anthropological and medical understanding of culture-boundsyndromes, particularly in Chinese and East Asian culture (such as Koro).

In 1976, he founded the journal Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry,[1] and was its Editor-in-Chief until1986.[2] The journal was continued by Byron and Mary-Jo Good, and Peter J. Guarnaccia.[3]

Kleinman has co-authored many works with other celebrated psychiatrists and researchers in the field ofmental health and cross-cultural psychiatry, including Paul Farmer, Veena Das, Margaret Lock, MichaelPhillips, Byron Good, Mary Delvecchio Good, Tsung-yi Lin, and Leon Eisenberg. Perhaps Kleinman'smost influential work is Patients and healers in the context of culture (1980), a groundbreaking work ofmedical anthropology, 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).

Kleinman is a member of the Institute of Medicine at the National Academy of Science; and the AmericanAcademy of Arts and Sciences. He has delivered numerous lectures on a variety of topics at universitiesaround the world. Most recently, his talks have been on the subject of moral experience. He has been afellow of the Guggenheim Foundation and the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences(Stanford). He was awarded an honorary professorship at Fudan University. Shortly thereafter, he wasCleveringa Professor at the University of Leiden in the Netherlands.

He directed the World Mental Health Report, co-chaired the American Psychiatric Association’s Taskforceon Culture and DSM-IV, co-chaired the 2002 Institute of Medicine report on Preventing Suicide, and alsoco-chaired in 2001 and 2002 both the NIH conference on the Science and Ethics of the Placebo and theNIH conference on Stigma. In September 2003, he gave the Distinguished Lecture sponsored by theFogarty International Center at NIH on the Global Epidemic of Depression and Suicide. He is a consultantto the WHO where he chaired the technical advisory committee of the Nations for Mental Health ActionProgram and in December 2002 gave the keynote address to the WHO’s first international conference onglobal mental health research. He is a winner of the Wellcome Prize of the Royal AnthropologicalInstitute; a recipient of an honorary Doctorate of Science from York University (Canada); and the 2001winner of the Franz Boas Award of the American Anthropological Association, its highest award. He is aDistinguished Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association. His most recent book, What ReallyMatters, (Oxford University Press, 2006) addresses existential dangers and uncertainties that make moralexperience, religion, and ethics so crucial to individuals and society today. This book has been translatedand published in Chinese editions both in Shanghai and Taipei.

In September 2003, he co-directed a conference at Harvard on SARS in China; and in the 2003-2004academic year he co-directed a Conference at Harvard on AIDS in China. In December 2006, he co-directed an NSF funded international meeting on Asian Flus/Avian Flu and in May 2007 he co-chaired aconference on Values in Global Health. He is a member of the Steering Committee of Harvard’s FairbankCenter for East Asian Research, is a member of the Advisory Board of the Harvard-Yenching Institute,and is on the Steering Committee of Harvard’s newly created China fund. He was also appointed to theDean’s Advisory Council in Social Sciences. A member of the Steering Committee of the HarvardInstitute of Global Health, Kleinman is co-chair of its Committee on Mental Health and of the Faculty ofArts and Sciences Standing Committee on Global Health.

In 2006 Arthur Kleinman received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Society for MedicalAnthropology, and in 2008 received from the SMA the George Foster Award. In 2004, he was awardedthe Doubleday Medal in Medical Humanities by University of Manchester, England. In 2007 he receivedan award in the medical humanities at Imperial College, London. He was also appointed by the Secretaryof the Department of Health and Human Services of the U.S. Government to the Advisory Council of theFogarty International Center, National Institutes of Health. In 2003 Kleinman chaired the SelectionCommittee for the NIH’s new Pioneer Awards; and in 2007 he was appointed to the NIH’s Council ofCouncils.

Arthur Kleinman received his A.B. and M.D. from Stanford University and M.A. in Social Anthropologyfrom Harvard. He did an internship in internal medicine at Yale and his psychiatric residency at theMassachusetts General Hospital. He has supervised more than 65 Ph.D. students (including 12 M.D.-Ph.D. students), and worked with more than 200 post-doctoral fellows, and he has taught hundreds ofmedical students and undergraduate students. Kleinman has received more than 50 research grants, and iscurrently involved in various research projects in China studying depression; stigma; suicide; and thehealth consequences of rural-urban migration.

Selected list of published worksMedicine in Chinese cultures : comparative studies of health care in Chinese and other societies:papers and discussions from a conference held in Seattle, Washington, U.S.A., February 1974 /edited by Arthur Kleinman ... [et al.]. -- U.S. Dept. of Health, Education, and Welfare, PublicHealth Service, National Institutes of Health, 1975.Culture and healing in Asian societies : anthropological, psychiatric, and public health studies /edited by Arthur Kleinman ... [et al.]. - - G.K. Hall, 1978Normal and abnormal behavior in Chinese culture / edited by Arthur Kleinman and Tsung-yi Lin. --D. Reidel, 1981. -- (Culture, illness, and healing / editor-in-chief, Arthur Kleinman ; v. 2)Patients and healers in the context of culture : an exploration of the borderland betweenanthropology, medicine, and psychiatry / Arthur Kleinman. -- University of California Press, 1980.Culture and depression : studies in the anthropology and cross-cultura l psychiatry of affect anddisorder / 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, 1986The illness narratives: suffering, healing, and the human condition / Kleinman—Basic Books, 1988Rethinking psychiatry : from cultural category to personal experience / Kleinman ; Free Press, 1991ISBN 0-02-917441-4Social suffering / edited by Kleinman, Veena Das, and Margaret Lock—University of CaliforniaPress, 1997 & Oxford University Press, 1997Writing at the margin : discourse between anthropology and medicine / Kleinman. -- University ofCalifornia Press, 1995What really matters: living a moral life amidst uncertainty and danger / Kleinman—OxfordUniversity Press, 2006. Translated into Chinese: Shanghai Joint Publishing Company, Shanghai,

P.R. China, 2007; translated in Chinese: PsyGarden Publishing Company, Taiwan, 2007

Further readingRichard A. Shweder (1988), Suffering in Style

(http://www.springerlink.com/content/hnx262180v304648/) , "Review of Kleinman's (1986) bookSocial Origins of Distress and Disease", Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry 12: 479–497,doi:10.1007/BF00054499 (http://dx.doi.org/10.1007%2FBF00054499) ,http://www.springerlink.com/content/hnx262180v304648/ (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"(http://books.google.com.au/books?id=7DmCoEsxVxQC&printsec=frontcover&dq=%22Thinking+through+cultures%22&source=bl&ots=b-yGu16oFO&sig=BTpD4C9pX7y5q0LWtTluYvg4ss4&hl=en&ei=wq79S7-nF4qycanKmZAK&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=3&ved=0CDoQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&q=arthur%20kleinman&f=false) , Thinking through Cultures: Expeditions in Cultural

Psychology, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, pp. 313–331, ISBN 0-674-88416-7,http://books.google.com.au/books?id=7DmCoEsxVxQC&printsec=frontcover&dq=%22Thinking+through+cultures%22&source=bl&ots=b-yGu16oFO&sig=BTpD4C9pX7y5q0LWtTluYvg4ss4&hl=en&ei=wq79S7-nF4qycanKmZAK&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=3&ved=0CDoQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&q=arthur%20kleinman&f=falsePeter J. Guarnaccia, "Editorial" (http://www.springerlink.com/content/l2g7763657747290/) ,Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry 27: 249–257, doi:10.1023/A:1025390614115(http://dx.doi.org/10.1023%2FA%3A1025390614115) , ISSN 1573-076X(//www.worldcat.org/issn/1573-076X) , http://www.springerlink.com/content/l2g7763657747290/

References

1. ^ "Culture, medicine and psychiatry: Twenty years and more"(http://www.springerlink.com/content/g1u7358377262t69/) , Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry 20 (1): vii-xi,March 1996, doi:10.1007/BF00118748 (http://dx.doi.org/10.1007%2FBF00118748) , ISSN 1573-076X(//www.worldcat.org/issn/1573-076X) , http://www.springerlink.com/content/g1u7358377262t69/

2. ^ Arthur Kleinman, Curriculum Vitae

(http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~anthro/social_faculty_pages/pdf/kleinman_arthur.pdf) ,http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~anthro/social_faculty_pages/pdf/kleinman_arthur.pdf, retrieved 26 May 2010

3. ^ Peter J. Guarnaccia, "Editorial" (http://www.springerlink.com/content/l2g7763657747290/) , Culture,

Medicine and Psychiatry 27: 249–257, doi:10.1023/A:1025390614115(http://dx.doi.org/10.1023%2FA%3A1025390614115) , ISSN 1573-076X (//www.worldcat.org/issn/1573-076X) , http://www.springerlink.com/content/l2g7763657747290/

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