Medical+Anthropology+at+Harvard

=Medical Anthropology at Harvard University=

Development and trajectories
Medical anthropology at Harvard began in 1970s by at least three key scholars, Arthur Kleinman, Byron Good, and Mary-Jo DelVecchio Good.


 * 1970-1**: B. Good (at that time, a Chicago graduate student) first met Arthur Kleinman (at that time, a fellow of career development award in history of medicine) in a seminar, then began their intellectual conversation with influence of Clifford Geertz's thought about "culture" and "cultural systems."


 * 1975-6**: Kleinman and Leon Eisenberg got money to run a seminar on cross cultural study of medicine, B. Good (as a gradate student writing his dissertation in Cambridge at that time) was an assistance. Kleinman negotiated to launce a new journal and pick up together the papers from that seminar to be the first issue of //Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry//. As B. Good commented, //“For us, that was the first real moment of the creation of something like **a Harvard approach to medical anthropology.**” [1]//


 * 1976**: Kleinman went to Seattle, while B. Good and M. Good went to UC Davis.

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 * 1983:** Kleinman recruited back to Harvard by Eisenberg and people in anthropology department, and asked B. Good and M. Good to apply in the positions in the "package" to set up a team. Then they wrote the grant for National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) training program in medical anthropology to support post doctoral fellows and graduate students in medical anthropology (start funding in 1984-5). This is, in Byron Good's view, //"a central mechanism to create a community around medical anthropology at Harvard." [1]//

**Critiques**
Critiques by critical medical anthropology.

Key concepts
Explanatory model Focusing on "lived experience" Structural Violence and Global Health

Key figures
Arthur Kleinman Byron Good Mary-Jo DelVecchio Good Michael Fischer (MIT) Paul Farmer Jim Kim

[1] An interview with Byron Good, by students at Oxford