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The
Normal and the Abnormal: Turning Sadness into Depressive Disorder and
Other Medicalizations
Professor
Arthur Kleinman
M.D., Stanford University
The Esther and Sidney Rabb Professor of Anthropology, Department of
Anthropology, Harvard University and
Professor of Medical Anthropology and Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard
Medical School
| Date |
25 September 2007 (Tue) |
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| Time |
11:00
am |
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| Venue |
Room
619, Sino Building, Chung Chi College, CUHK |
Seminar
The seminar is about
Professor Arthur Kleinman's book review for the Lancet. The book is written
by Allan V. Horwitz and Jerome C. Wakefield: The Loss of Sadness.
How Psychiatry Transformed Normal Sorrow into Depressive Disorder.
New York and Oxford:
Oxford University Press, 2007.
A relevant background book review can be found at
www.thelancet.com Vol
370, September 8, 2007. |
