Rethinking Psychiatry: From Cultural Category to Personal Experience

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.

Author: Arthur Kleinman
Publisher: Free Press
Published: 03/04/1991
Pages: 237
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.81lbs
Size: 9.34h x 6.14w x 0.53d
ISBN: 9780029174425

About the Author
Arthur Kleinman, M.D., is Professor of Anthropology and Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, in the Harvard University Department of Anthropology, and at The Cambridge Hospital. He is a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences. He and his, Joan Kleinman, have, for decades, collaborated on field research in China, Taiwan, and North America.