Writing at the Margin

Arthur Kleinman is Professor of Anthropology, Harvard University, and Presley Professor of Medical Anthropology and Chair of Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School. He is the author of Patients and Healers in the Context of Culture (California, 1980), Social Origins of Distress and Disease (1986), Rethinking Psychiatry (1988), and The Illness Narrative (1988); coauthor of World Mental Health (1995); and coeditor of Pain as Human Experience (California, 1992) and Culture and Depression (California, 1985).

• PREFACE    1Introduction: Medical Anthropology as Intellectual Career    PART ONE: THE CULTURE OF BIOMEDICINE2What Is Specific to Biomedicine?    3Anthropology of Bioethics    4A Critique of Objectivity in International Health    PART TWO: SUFFERING AS SOCIAL EXPERIENCE5Suffering and Its Professional Transformation:Toward an Ethnography of Interpersonal Experience(with Joan Kleinman)    6Pain and Resistance: The Delegitimation andRelegitimation of Local Worlds    7The Social Course of Epilepsy: Chronic Illnessas Social Experience in Interior China(with Wen-zhi Wang, Shi-chuo Li, Xue-ming Cheng,Xiu-ying Dai, ICun-tun Li, and Joan Kleinman)    8Violence, Culture, and the Politics of Trauma(with Robert Desjarlais)    PART THREE: THE STATE OF MEDICAL ANTHROPOLOGY9The New Wave of Ethnographies in Medical Anthropology    APPENDIX: WORKS BY ARTHUR KLEINMAN    NOTES    REFERENCES    INDEX