Tag: medical anthropology
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Health
How a doctor learned to become a caregiver
Harvard Professor Arthur Kleinman’s wife, Joan, began to struggle with a rare form of early Alzheimer’s disease at 59.
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Campus & Community
‘To be horrified by inequality and early death and not have any kind of plan for responding — that would not work for me’
In the Experience series, Paul Farmer talks Partners In Health, “Harvard-Haiti,” and making the lives of the poor the fight of his life.
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Nation & World
The doctor gets a doctorate
Neither Wirun Limsawart’s knowledge as a doctor nor his work as a hospital manager could help him solve Thailand’s national crisis over health care malpractice.