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Arthur Kleinman: Care for Global Aging

Datum
12. März 2025 

Talk and Dis­cus­sion host­ed by AAGE and AGENET


Care for Glob­al Aging
A talk and dis­cus­sion with Arthur Kleinman
Wednes­day, March 12, 2025
12:00 – 1:30 EST
(18:00 – 19:30 GMT)
Host­ed by AAGE (Asso­ci­a­tion of Anthro­pol­o­gy, Age­ing, and the Life Course) and AGENET (Age and Gen­er­a­tions Network) 

Via zoom: https://umass-amherst.zoom.us/j/96686957373

Arthur Klein­man is Esther and Sid­ney Rabb Pro­fes­sor of Anthro­pol­o­gy, Har­vard Uni­ver­si­ty, and Pro­fes­sor of Med­ical Anthro­pol­o­gy in Glob­al Health and Social Medicine
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 will make the care for care as the core of health care sys­tems and also for glob­al aging; and he will also present the project he directs, Social Tech­nol­o­gy for Glob­al Aging Ini­tia­tive at Har­vard, with its focus on Elder­care in China.