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We tend to think of dangers and uncertainties as anomalies in the continuum of life, or irruptions of unpredictable forces into a largely predictable world. I suggest the contrary: that dangers and uncertainties are an inescapable dimension of life. In fact, as we shall come to understand, they make life matter. They define what it means to be human.

Arthur Kleinman

Arthur Kleinman

Arthur Kleinman

Born: March 1, 1941 (age 85)

Bio: Arthur Kleinman is an American psychiatrist and a professor of medical anthropology and cross-cultural psychiatry at Harvard University. He is well known for his work on mental illness in Chinese culture.

Known for:

The Illness Narratives (1988)
Rethinking Psychiatry (1988)
Writing at the margin (1995)

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