Arthur Kleinman Books, Bio, Wiki, Age, Wife, Harvard, And Net Worth

Arthur Kleinman Bio | Wiki

Arthur Kleinman ( Full name: Arthur Michael Kleinman) is an American psychiatrist and psychiatric anthropologist. He currently serves as a professor of medical anthropology and cross-cultural psychiatry at Harvard University. Arthur is best known for his work on mental illness in Chinese culture. He has contributed to anthropological and medical understanding of culture-bound syndromes.

Arthur Kleinman Age

He was born on March 1, 1941, in New York City, United States of America. Arthur is 81 years old.

Arthur Kleinman Height

He is a man of above-average stature. Arthur stands at the height of 5 ft 9 in ( Approx 1.75 m).

Arthur Kleinman Family

He was born to his parents in New York City, United States of America. Arthur has supervised over 65 Ph.D. students (including 12 M.D.-Ph.D. students) at Harvard. He worked with over 200 post-doctoral fellows. Arthur has taught hundreds of medical students as well as undergraduate students. He previously served as the chair of the Harvard Department of Anthropology from 2004 to 2007. Currently, he is the Director of the Harvard University Asia Center. However, Arthur has not publicly shared information about his family.

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Arthur Kleinman Wife

He is happily married to his wife Joan Kleinman. The couple shares two children namely Peter and Anne.

Arthur Kleinman Harvard

He graduated with an A.B. and M.D. from Stanford University. Later, Arthur earned an M.A. in Social Anthropology from Harvard. He also did an internship in internal medicine at the Yale School of Medicine. He finished his psychiatric residency at the Massachusetts General Hospital.

Arthur Kleinman 8 Questions

The following are eight questions that Arthur asks:

1. “What do you call the problem?
2. What do you think has caused the problem?
3. Why do you think it started when it did?
4. What do you think the sickness does? How does it work?
5. How severe is the sickness? Will it have a long or a short course?
6. What kind of treatment do you think the patient should receive?
7. What are the chief problems the sickness has caused?
8. What do you fear most about the sickness?”

Arthur Kleinman Illness Narratives

He has authored seven books and more than 350 articles, book chapters, introductions, and reviews. His most influential work is Patients and Healers in the Context of Culture which was published in 1980. This is then followed by The Illness Narratives: Suffering, Healing, and the Human Condition published in 1988. The othe one is Social origins of distress and disease: depression, neurasthenia, and pain in modern China which was published in 1986.

Arthur Kleinman What Really Matters | The Soul Of Care

Arthur’s book titled  What Really Matters (Oxford University Press, 2006), addresses existential dangers as well as uncertainties that currently make the moral experience, religion, as well as ethics so crucial to individuals and society. The latter has been translated and published in Chinese editions in Shanghai and Taipei. Arthur’s most recent book titled The Soul of Care: The Moral Education of a Husband and a Doctor was published in 2019.

Arthur Kleinman Paul Farmer

Paul Farmer ( Paul Edward Farmer) was an American medical anthropologist and physician born on October 26, 1959, in North Adams, Massachusetts, the U.S. He held an MD and Ph.D. from Harvard University, where he was the Kolokotrones University Professor. Also, he served as the chair of the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School. Arthur has co-authored many works with other psychiatrists and researchers in the field of mental health and cross-cultural psychiatry such as  Paul Farmer, Tsung-yi Lin, Veena Das, Mary Del-Vecchio Good, Margaret Lock, Byron Good, Leon Eisenberg, and Michael Phillips

Arthur Kleinman Social Suffering

He has particularly concentrated on Chinese and East Asian cultures (such as Koro).  According to Arthur,  mental distress is likely to be expressed as somatized distress (i.e. as a bodily ailment) rather than as psychological distress by Chinese or East Asian patients. Arthur has conducted research in Chinese society since 1968, first in Taiwan, and in China since 1978.He has concentrated more on schizophrenia, depression, epilepsy, somatization,  suicide, and other forms of violence.  He has written on the intersection of public health as well as international issues, social suffering, cross-cultural psychiatry, and the individual experience of pain and disability.

Arthur Kleinman Books

– Reimagining Global Health: An Introduction (Volume 26) (California Series in Public Anthropology)-Sep 7, 2013
– The Illness Narratives: Suffering, Healing, And The Human Condition Oct 13, 2020
– Rethinking Psychiatry: From Cultural Category to Personal Experience Mar 4, 1991
– The Soul of Care: The Moral Education of a Husband and a Doctor Sep 17, 2019
– What Really Matters: Living a Moral Life amidst Uncertainty and Danger Oct 29, 2007
– Patients and Healers in the Context of Culture: An Exploration of the Borderland Between Anthropology, Medicine, and Psychiatry (Volume 5) Aug 17, 1981
– SARS in China: Prelude to Pandemic? SARS in China: Prelude to Pandemic?Oct 27, 2005
– Writing at the Margin: Discourse Between Anthropology and Medicine Aug 15, 1997

Arthur Kleinman Net Worth

He is an American psychiatrist and psychiatric anthropologist with an estimated net worth of $10 million.

How Old Is Arthur Kleinman

Arthur is 81 years old. He was born on March 1, 1941, in New York City, United States of America.

Who Is Arthur Kleinman

Arthur is an American psychiatrist and psychiatric anthropologist. He currently serves as a professor of medical anthropology and cross-cultural psychiatry at Harvard University. Arthur is best known for his work on mental illness in Chinese culture.

Is Arthur Kleinman Married

He is married to a beautiful woman called Joan Kleinman. The couple shares two children namely Peter and Anne.

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