Arthur M. Kleinman, M.D.

2012 Kun-Po Soo Award Recipient

Lecture Title: Culture, Bereavement, and Psychiatry

Dr. Kleinman is a physician and anthropologist who is now in his thirty-sixth year at Harvard. A graduate of Stanford University, Stanford Medical School, and Harvard University, he is a leading figure in several fields: He has conducted research in China and Taiwan. In 1973, he taught Harvard’s first course in medical anthropology, and in 1982 he inaugurated Harvard’s Ph.D. program in medical anthropology. He was the 2001 winner of the Franz Boas Award of the American Anthropological Association (its highest award). Dr. Kleinman is a Distinguished Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association.