Arthur M Kleinman
Biographic Data
| ID | 233190 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Arthur M Kleinman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Arthur M |
| FAMILY NAME | Kleinman |
| SIGNATURE | KLEINMAN A M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Harvard University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 283 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1973 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Siamit
PROBLEM: American Indians and Alaska Natives hold a state-conferred right to health, yet significant health and health care disparities persist. Academic medical centers are resource-rich institutions committed to public service, yet few are engaged in responsive, equitable, and lasting tribal health partnerships to address these challenges. APPROACH: Maniilaq Association, a rural and remote tribal health organization in Northwest Alaska, partner…
Asian flus in ethnographic and political context
This collection highlights some of the social, cultural, political and economic factors that must be considered in developing a biosocial approach to pandemic influenza control and prevention. To date, most discussions of the current spread of avian influenza and a predicted human influenza pandemic have lacked rigorous analysis of the local contexts in which flus arise and in which the effects of a pandemic would most strongly be felt. Such loca…
An exploration of somatization among Asian refugees and immigrants in primary care
The clinical records of Chinese, Filipino, Vietnamese, Laotian, and Mien patients in primary care were reviewed to determine the prevalence of somatization, its associated patient characteristics, and the manifested illness behavior. Patients in this study were generally poor, unemployed, and spoke little English. Somatization accounted for 35 per cent of illness visits. These visits were also more costly. Refugees had a higher rate of somatizati…
"Depression, somatization and the "new cross-cultural psychiatry
Morita Psychotherapy
Modern China and Traditional Chinese Medicine
Medicine's symbolic reality
Modern socio‐cultural studies of medicine demonstrate the symbolic character of much of medical reality. This symbolic reality can be appreciated as mediating the traditional division of medicine into biophysical and human sciences. Comparative studies of medical systems offer a general model for medicine as a human science. These studies document that medicine, from an historical and cross‐cultural perspective, is constituted as a cultural syste…
Some Issues for a Comparative Study of Medical Healing
"Depression, somatization and the "new cross-cultural psychiatry
An exploration of somatization among Asian refugees and immigrants in primary care
The clinical records of Chinese, Filipino, Vietnamese, Laotian, and Mien patients in primary care were reviewed to determine the prevalence of somatization, its associated patient characteristics, and the manifested illness behavior. Patients in this study were generally poor, unemployed, and spoke little English. Somatization accounted for 35 per cent of illness visits. These visits were also more costly. Refugees had a higher rate of somatizati…
Asian flus in ethnographic and political context
This collection highlights some of the social, cultural, political and economic factors that must be considered in developing a biosocial approach to pandemic influenza control and prevention. To date, most discussions of the current spread of avian influenza and a predicted human influenza pandemic have lacked rigorous analysis of the local contexts in which flus arise and in which the effects of a pandemic would most strongly be felt. Such loca…
Medicine's symbolic reality
Modern socio‐cultural studies of medicine demonstrate the symbolic character of much of medical reality. This symbolic reality can be appreciated as mediating the traditional division of medicine into biophysical and human sciences. Comparative studies of medical systems offer a general model for medicine as a human science. These studies document that medicine, from an historical and cross‐cultural perspective, is constituted as a cultural syste…
Some Issues for a Comparative Study of Medical Healing
Modern China and Traditional Chinese Medicine
"Depression, somatization and the "new cross-cultural psychiatry
Morita Psychotherapy
An exploration of somatization among Asian refugees and immigrants in primary care
The clinical records of Chinese, Filipino, Vietnamese, Laotian, and Mien patients in primary care were reviewed to determine the prevalence of somatization, its associated patient characteristics, and the manifested illness behavior. Patients in this study were generally poor, unemployed, and spoke little English. Somatization accounted for 35 per cent of illness visits. These visits were also more costly. Refugees had a higher rate of somatizati…
Asian flus in ethnographic and political context
This collection highlights some of the social, cultural, political and economic factors that must be considered in developing a biosocial approach to pandemic influenza control and prevention. To date, most discussions of the current spread of avian influenza and a predicted human influenza pandemic have lacked rigorous analysis of the local contexts in which flus arise and in which the effects of a pandemic would most strongly be felt. Such loca…
Siamit
PROBLEM: American Indians and Alaska Natives hold a state-conferred right to health, yet significant health and health care disparities persist. Academic medical centers are resource-rich institutions committed to public service, yet few are engaged in responsive, equitable, and lasting tribal health partnerships to address these challenges. APPROACH: Maniilaq Association, a rural and remote tribal health organization in Northwest Alaska, partner…
Medicine (6 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Geography (3 works) · China (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Mental Health and Psychiatry (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Psychoanalysis (2 works) · Traditional medicine (2 works)