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… — Arthur Kleinman Copy Share Image
“Today, our view of genuine reality is increasingly clouded by professionals whose technical expertise often introduces a superficial and soulless model of the person that denies moral significance. Perhaps the most devastating example for human values is the process of medicalization through which ordinary unhappiness and normal bereavement have been transformed into clinical depression, existential angst turned into anxiety disorders,… — Arthur Kleinman Copy Share
Michael Jackson is an extremely productive ethnographer, a serious reader of phenomenological and existential philosophy, and a remarkable writer at a level that one rarely sees in anthropology. Lifeworlds, unsurprisingly, is no exception. The several essays included here fit into an impressive whole that set out a compelling case for a type of ethnography of which Jackson is one of… — Arthur Kleinman Copy Share
We tend to think of dangers and uncertainties as anomalies in the continuum of life, or irruptions of unpredictable forces into a largely predictable… — Arthur Kleinman Copy Share Image
“Yet when the denial becomes so complete that we live under what amounts to a tyranny of not seeing and not speaking the existential… — Arthur Kleinman Copy Share Image
Stories open up new paths, sometimes send us back to old ones, and close off still others. Telling and listening to stories we too… — Arthur Kleinman Copy Share Image
We are storied folk. Stories are what we are; telling and listening to stories is what we do. — Arthur Kleinman Copy Share Image
