"What Really Matters: Living a Moral Life Amidst Uncertainty and Danger" by Arthur Kleinman Oxford University Press > download order form "This is a fascinating and deeply entertaining book It offers the kind of insight that makes you think and think again. The richness of the book comes mainly from the stories Dr. Kleinman tells, about patients and friends and one remarkable historical figure--complicated stories that confront life's miseries and renew the cheapened word 'inspiring.'" --Tracy Kidder Kleinman Receives Doubleday Award: Harvard Gazette November 11, 2004 Esther and Sidney Rabb Professor of Anthropology Arthur Kleinman was awarded the Doubleday Award at the University of Manchester, United Kingdom, on October 21. As the award-holder, Kleinman, who is a professor of medical anthropology and psychiatry at Harvard, delivered a lecture to the University of Manchester Medical School titled "The Moral Basis of Medicine: Threats to the Moral Experience of Patients and Doctors." Arthur Kleinman, Esther and Sidney Rabb Professor, Department of Anthropology, Harvard University and Professor of Medical Anthropology in Social Medicine and Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School As of July 2008, is the Victor and William Fung Director of Harvard University's Asia Center. A.B. 1962, Stanford M.D. 1967, Stanford M.A. 1974, Harvard University Research and Teaching Office: William James Hall 330, (617) 495-3846, e-mail Faculty Assistant: Marilyn Goodrich, (617) 496-8336, e-mail Arthur Kleinman, M.D. is one of the world’s leading medical anthropologists. He is also a major figure in cultural psychiatry, global health, and social medicine. Kleinman is the Esther and Sidney Rabb Professor of Anthropology, Department of Anthropology, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University and was Chair of that Department from 2004-2007; from 1991 to 2000 he chaired Harvard Medical School’s Department of Social Medicine and from 1993-2002 he held the Maude and Lillian Presley Professorship at Harvard Medical School. He continues to be Professor of Social Medicine and Psychiatry at HMS. Since 1968, Kleinman, who is both a psychiatrist and an anthropologist, has conducted research in Chinese society, first in Taiwan, and since 1978 in China, on depression, somatization, epilepsy, schizophrenia and suicide, and other forms of violence. Kleinman is the author of 6 books, editor or co-editor of 28 volumes and special issues of journals, and is author of more than 200 research and review articles and chapters. His chief publications are Patients and Healers in the Context of Culture; Social Origins of Distress and Disease: Neurasthenia, Depression and Pain in Modern China; The Illness Narratives; Rethinking Psychiatry; Culture and Depression (co-editor); Social Suffering (co-editor); and his most recent book, What Really Matters. Arthur Kleinman is a member of the Institute of Medicine at the National Academy of Science; and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He has delivered the Flory Lecture at the University of Adelaide; the Beattie Smith Lecture at University of Melbourne; the Hume Lecture at Yale; the William James Lecture at Harvard Divinity School; the Woodward Lecture at University of Maryland School of Medicine; the Westermarck Lecture at University of Helsinki; and the Nelson Lecture at the University of California, Davis; and the Tanner Lectures at Stanford University, among many other named lectures. In the last several years he has lectured on moral experience at Williams; Amherst; Emory; Rice; Princeton; University College London; and Mount Sinai Hospital (The Richman Family Lecture). He has been a fellow of the Guggenheim Foundation and the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (Stanford). In Fall Semester, 2007, he delivered the S.C. Fan Memorial Lecture at the University of Hong Kong and also lectured at the Chinese University of Hong Kong; Academia Sinica (Taiwan); National Taiwan University Hosptital; Tsinghua University (Taiwan); and Fudan University (China). He was awarded an honorary professorship at Fudan University. Shortly thereafter, he was Cleveringa Professor at the University of Leiden (The Netherlands) where he delivered the Cleveringa address. He directed the World Mental Health Report, co-chaired the American Psychiatric Association’s Taskforce on Culture and DSM-IV, co-chaired the 2002 Institute of Medicine report on Preventing Suicide, and also co-chaired in 2001 and 2002 both the NIH conference on the Science and Ethics of the Placebo and the NIH conference on Stigma. In September 2003, he gave the Distinguished Lecture sponsored by the Fogarty International Center at NIH on the Global Epidemic of Depression and Suicide. He is a consultant to the WHO where he chaired the technical advisory committee of the Nations for Mental Health Action Program and in December 2002 gave the keynote address to the WHO’s first international conference on global mental health research. He is a winner of the Wellcome Prize of the Royal Anthropological Institute; a recipient of an honorary Doctorate of Science from York University (Canada); and the 2001 winner of the Franz Boas Award of the American Anthropological Association, its highest award. He is a Distinguished Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association. His most recent book, What Really Matters, (Oxford University Press, 2006) addresses existential dangers and uncertainties that make moral experience, religion, and ethics so crucial to individuals and society today. This book has been translated and published in Chinese editions both in Shanghai and Taipei. In September 2003, he co-directed a conference at Harvard on SARS in China; and in the 2003-2004 academic year he co-directed a Conference at Harvard on AIDS in China. In December 2006, he co-directed an NSF funded international meeting on Asian Flus/Avian Flu and in May 2007 he co-chaired a conference on Values in Global Health. He is a member of the Steering Committee of Harvard’s Asia Center and Fairbank Center for East Asian Studies, is a member of the Advisory Board of the Harvard-Yenching Institute, and is on the Steering Committee of Harvard’s newly created China fund. He was also appointed to the Dean’s Advisory Council in Social Sciences. A member of the Steering Committee of the Harvard Institute of Global Health, Kleinman is co-chair of its Committee on Mental Health and of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences Standing Committee on Global Health. In 2006 Arthur Kleinman received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Society for Medical Anthropology. In 2004, he was awarded the Doubleday Medal in Medical Humanities by University of Manchester, England. In 2007 he received an award in the medical humanities at Imperial College, London. He was also appointed by the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services of the U.S. Government to the Advisory Council of the Fogarty International Center, National Institutes of Health. In 2003 Kleinman chaired the Selection Committee for the NIH’s new Pioneer Awards; and in 2007 he was appointed to the NIH’s Council of Councils. While on sabbatical in the 2007-2008 academic year, Professor Kleinman was Cleveringa Professor at the University of Leiden, The Netherlands and delivered the distinguished Cleveringa address which honors a University of Leiden hero of the Nazi Occupation, Professor Cleveringa. Kleinman also gave the S.C. Fan distinguished Lecture at the University of Hong Kong in 2007 and in addition lectured at 6 universities and research institutes in Taiwan and at Fudan University in Shanghai, where he was made an Honorary Professor and co-director of the Fudan-Harvard/Harvard-Fudan Medical Anthropology Collaborative Research Center. In 2008, his essay "The Art of Medicine" introduced a new series in /The Lancet/ in the art of medicine. Arthur Kleinman received his A.B. and M.D. from Stanford University and M.A. in Social Anthropology from Harvard. He did an internship in internal medicine at Yale and his psychiatric residency at the Massachusetts General Hospital. He has supervised 60 Ph.D. students (including 12 M.D.-Ph.D. students), and worked with 200 post-doctoral fellows, and he has taught hundreds of medical students and undergraduate students. Kleinman has received more than 50 research grants, and is currently involved in various research projects in China studying depression; stigma; suicide; and the health consequences of rural-urban migration. Arthur Kleinman has been married to Joan Kleinman, a China Scholar, for 42 years. They have two children: Peter (B.S. and Ph.D. Cornell in Soil Science) and Anne (B.A. Harvard and Ph.D. Yale in the politics of Chinese society); and four grandchildren: Gabriel Wong, Allegra Wong; Kendall Kleinman; and Clayton Arthur Kleinman. Arthur Kleinman has lived in Cambridge and been associated with Harvard for 32 years.