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  • The Illness Narratives

    Suffering, Healing, And The Human Condition

    by Arthur Kleinman ...
    From one of America's most celebrated psychiatrists, the book that has taught generations of healers why healing the sick is about more than just diagnosing their illness.Modern medicine treats sick patients like broken machines -- figure out what is physically wrong, fix it, and send the patient on their way. But humans are not machines. When we are ill, we experience our illness: we become ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Soul of Care

    The Moral Education of a Husband and a Doctor

    by Arthur Kleinman ...
    A moving memoir and an extraordinary love story that shows how an expert physician became a family caregiver and learned why care is so central to all our lives and yet is at risk in today's world.When Dr. Arthur Kleinman, an eminent Harvard psychiatrist and social anthropologist, began caring for his wife, Joan, after she was diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer's disease, he found just how far ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Rethinking Psychiatry

    by Arthur Kleinman ...
    In this book, Kleinman proposes an international view of mental illness and mental care.Arthur Kleinman, M.D., examines how the prevalence and nature of disorders vary in different cultures, how clinicians make their diagnoses, and how they heal, and the educational and practical implications of a true understanding of the interplay between biology and culture. ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • The Practice of Wisdom

    Five Quests

    by Davíd Carrasco, Arthur Kleinman, Stephanie Paulsell, Michael Puett ...
    A master class from four renowned Harvard professors—an anthropologist, a physician, a theologian, and a historian—on discovering wisdom in challenging times.In moments of uncertainty, to whom do we turn for solace and insight? How can we endure and overcome our own suffering? Harvard University professors Davíd Carrasco, Arthur Kleinman, Stephanie Paulsell, and Michael Puett turn to great ... Read more

    $16.59 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • What Really Matters

    Living a Moral Life amidst Uncertainty and Danger

    by Arthur Kleinman, M.D. ...
    In this moving and thought-provoking volume, Arthur Kleinman tells the unsettling stories of a handful of men and women, some of whom have lived through some of the most fundamental transitions of the turbulent twentieth century. Here we meet an American veteran of World War II, tortured by the memory of the atrocities he committed while a soldier in the Pacific. A French-American woman aiding ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Deep China

    The Moral Life of the Person

    by Arthur Kleinman, Yunxiang Yan, Jing Jun, Dr. Sing Lee, Everett Zhang ...
    Deep China investigates the emotional and moral lives of the Chinese people as they adjust to the challenges of modernity. Sharing a medical anthropology and cultural psychiatry perspective, Arthur Kleinman, Yunxiang Yan, Jing Jun, Sing Lee, Everett Zhang, Pan Tianshu, Wu Fei, and Guo Jinhua delve into intimate and sometimes hidden areas of personal life and social practice to observe and narrate ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • What Really Matters

    Living a Moral Life amidst Uncertainty and Danger

    by Arthur Kleinman, M.D. ...
    In this moving and thought-provoking volume, Arthur Kleinman tells the unsettling stories of a handful of men and women, some of whom have lived through some of the most fundamental transitions of the turbulent twentieth century. Here we meet an American veteran of World War II, tortured by the memory of the atrocities he committed while a soldier in the Pacific. A French-American woman aiding ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

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    The Illness Narratives

    Suffering, Healing, And The Human Condition

    by Arthur Kleinman ...
    Narrated by David Stifel ...

    Unabridged

    13 hours 2 min

    From one of America's most celebrated psychiatrists, the book that has taught generations of healers why healing the sick is about more than just diagnosing their illness.Modern medicine treats sick patients like broken machines -- figure out what is physically wrong, fix it, and send the patient on their way. But humans are not machines. When we are ill, we experience our illness: we become ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Underbelly

    Childhood Diarrhea and the Hidden Local Realities of Global Health

    by Rachel Hall-Clifford, Arthur Kleinman ...
    An unsettling exploration of the hidden power dynamics of global health, seen through the lens of childhood diarrhea and its treatment within the Guatemalan context.Deaths from childhood diarrhea seem preposterous in high-income countries. Yet, for children under five years old in the rest of the world, diarrhea is the third highest cause of mortality. Despite a glut of prevention and treatment ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Psychosocial Aspects of Depression

    Edited by Joseph Becker, Arthur Kleinman ...
    Despite general agreement that psychosocial factors play an important role in various facets of the etiology, onset, treatment response and outcome of depressive disorders, the replicability of research results has left much to be desired. Because much of this unreliability has been attributed to variability in diagnostic criteria, this volume focuses on efforts to identify sources of variability ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • Global Pharmaceuticals

    Ethics, Markets, Practices

    Edited by Adriana Petryna, Andrew Lakoff, Arthur Kleinman ...
    In some parts of the world spending on pharmaceuticals is astronomical. In others people do not have access to basic or life-saving drugs. Individuals struggle to afford medications; whole populations are neglected, considered too poor to constitute profitable markets for the development and distribution of necessary drugs. The ethnographies brought together in this timely collection analyze both ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Reimagining Global Health

    An Introduction

    Edited by Paul Farmer, Arthur Kleinman, Jim Kim, Matthew Basilico ...
    Series Book 26 - California Series in Public Anthropology
    Bringing together the experience, perspective and expertise of Paul Farmer, Jim Yong Kim, and Arthur Kleinman, Reimagining Global Health provides an original, compelling introduction to the field of global health. Drawn from a Harvard course developed by their student Matthew Basilico, this work provides an accessible and engaging framework for the study of global health. Insisting on an approach ... Read more

    $26.59 USD