Arthur_Kleinman
苦痛和疾病的社会根源 豆瓣
8.3 (17 个评分) 作者: [美]凯博文 译者: 郭金华 上海三联书店 2008 - 3
作为1949年以来第一个在中华人民共和国进行精神医学研究的美国学者,凯博文在多层面上探讨了神经衰弱、抑郁症以及躯体症状之间的关系。本书为我们理解中国人在与家庭和国家的关系上的体验开启了一个窗口,同时也对中国人和美国人各自如何解释自身的疼痛与绝望处境进行了一个跨文化的比较。
“本书对疾病症状与社会之间的辩证关系的分析十分具有穿透力。这本强力著作不仅属于人类学与精神医学的先锋之作,而且也展示了作者对消除人类不幸与苦难的深切关注和担当。所有致力于改善健康照顾系统的人都应该阅读本书。”
——Joan M. Anderson, Current Anthropology
“此书堪称医学人类学界长期以来所期盼的最重要的一本著作。”
——Richard Shweder, Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry
“一本视野宽广、发人深省的医学人类学著作。”
——Roy Porter, Times Literary Supplement
“对跨文化精神医学具有重要贡献。”
——Paul Chodoff, M.D., Journal of the American Medical Association
“本书的田野研究写作精美,以至于历史学家都不断被其描述的中国共产主义政治实践中的那些重要时刻所吸引。作者以丰富细腻的笔触描写了中国人的社会关系,童年以及成长过程中出现的那些问题。”
——Jonathan Spence, Yale University
“这是到目前为止我们对中国精神健康问题的最好的研究。这是一本具有开创意义的著作。”
——Ezra F. Vogel, Harvard University
What Really Matters 豆瓣
作者: Arthur Kleinman Oxford University Press 2006 - 5
In this moving and thought-provoking volume, Arthur Kleinman tells the unsettling stories of a handful of men and women, some of whom have lived through some of the most fundamental transitions of the turbulent twentieth century.
Here we meet an American veteran of World War II, tortured by the memory of the atrocities he committed while a soldier in the Pacific. A French-American woman aiding refugees in sub-Saharan Africa, facing the utter chaos of a society where life has become meaningless. A Chinese doctor trying to stay alive during Mao's cultural revolution, discovering that the only values that matter are those that get you beyond the next threat. These individuals found themselves caught in circumstances where those things that matter most to them--their desires, status, relationships, resources, political and religious commitments, life itself--have been challenged by the society around them. Each is caught up in existential moral experiences that define what it means to be human, with an intensity that makes their life narratives arresting.
These stories reveal just how malleable moral life is, and just how central danger is to our worlds and our livelihood. Indeed, Kleinman offers in this book a groundbreaking approach to ethics, examining "who we are" through some of the most disturbing issues of our time--war, globalization, poverty, social injustice--all in the context of actual lived moral life.