AAGE and AGENET were happy to host a joint event on Wednesday, March 12, 2025 12:00 – 1:30 EST (16:00 – 17:30 GMT/ 17:00 – 18:00 CEST,
Arthur Kleinman is Esther and Sidney Rabb Professor of Anthropology, Faculty of Arts & Sciences, Harvard University, and Professor of Medical Anthropology in Global Health and Social Medicine and Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School. He has published seven single authored books including Patients and Healers in the Context of Culture; Social Origins of Distress and Disease: Depression, Neurasthenia and Pain in Modern China; Rethinking Psychiatry; The Illness Narratives; Writing at the Margin; What Really Matters: and The Soul of Care: The Moral Education of a Husband and a Doctor. His four co-authored books include Reimagining Global Health; A Passion for Society: How We Think about Human Suffering; and Deep China: The Moral Life of the Person. He has also co-edited books on culture and depression; SARS in China; world mental health; suicide; placebos; AIDS in China; and the relationship of anthropology to philosophy.
On March 12, Kleinman made the case for care as the core of healthcare systems and also for global aging; and he also presented the project he directs, Social Technology for Global Aging Initiative at Harvard, with its focus on Eldercare in China.
