Arthur Kleinman

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1. Arthur Kleinman

   Author of The Illness Narratives: Suffering, Healing, and the Human Condition, Rethinking Psychiatry: From Cultural Category to Personal Experience, Writing at the Margin: Discourse Between Anthropology and Medicine

2. Rita Charon

   Author of Narrative Medicine: Honoring the Stories of Illness, Stories Matter: The Role of Narrative in Medical Ethics (Reflective Bioethics)

3. Paul Farmer

   Author of Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights, and the New War on the Poor, Infections and Inequalities: The Modern Plagues, AIDS and Accusation: Haiti and the Geography of Blame (Comparative Studies of Health Systems and Medical Care)

4. Arthur W. Frank

   Author of The wounded storyteller: body, illness, and ethics

5. Emily Martin

   Author of The Woman in the Body: A Cultural Analysis of Reproduction, Flexible Bodies

6. Cheryl Mattingly

   Author of Narrative and the cultural construction of illness and healing

7. Sander L. Gilman

   Author of Making the Body Beautiful, Disease and Representation: Images of Illness from Madness to AIDS

8. Alfred I. Tauber

   Author of Confessions of a Medicine Man: An Essay in Popular Philosophy, Patient Autonomy and the Ethics of Responsibility (Basic Bioethics)

9. Charles E. Rosenberg

   Author of The Care of Strangers: The Rise of America's Hospital System, Framing Disease: Studies in Cultural History (Health and Medicine in American Society)

10. Lynn Payer

    Author of Medicine and Culture

11. David J. Rothman

    Author of Strangers at the Bedside (Social Institutions and Social Change)

12. Byron J. Good

    Author of Medicine, Rationality and Experience: An Anthropological Perspective (Lewis Henry Morgan Lectures)

13. Anne Harrington

    Author of The Cure Within: A History of Mind-Body Medicine, The Placebo Effect: An Interdisciplinary Exploration

14. David B. Morris

    Author of Illness and Culture in the Postmodern Age

15. Susan Sontag

    Author of Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors

16. Erving Goffman

    Author of Stigma: Notes on the Management of Spoiled Identity, Asylums: Essays on the Social Situation of Mental Patients and Other Inmates

17. Eric J. Cassell

    Author of The Nature of Suffering and the Goals of Medicine

18. Paul Starr

    Author of The Social Transformation of American Medicine: The Rise of a Sovereign Profession and the Making of a Vast Industry

19. Daniel J. Kevles

    Author of In the Name of Eugenics: Genetics and the Uses of Human Heredity, The Code of Codes: Scientific and Social Issues in the Human Genome Project

20. Jackie Orr

    Author of Panic Diaries: A Genealogy of Panic Disorder