What Really Matters

出版者:Oxford University Press

作者:Arthur Kleinman

页数:272

出版时间:2007-10-29

价格:USD 19.99

装帧:Paperback

isbn号码:9780195331325

具体描述

In this moving and thought-provoking volume, Arthur Kleinman tells the unsettling stories of a handful of men and women, some of whom have lived through some of the most fundamental transitions of the turbulent twentieth century.

Here we meet an American veteran of World War II, tortured by the memory of the atrocities he committed while a soldier in the Pacific. A French-American woman aiding refugees in sub-Saharan Africa, facing the utter chaos of a society where life has become meaningless. A Chinese doctor trying to stay alive during Mao's cultural revolution, discovering that the only values that matter are those that get you beyond the next threat. These individuals found themselves caught in circumstances where those things that matter most to them--their desires, status, relationships, resources, political and religious commitments, life itself--have been challenged by the society around them. Each is caught up in existential moral experiences that define what it means to be human, with an intensity that makes their life narratives arresting.

These stories reveal just how malleable moral life is, and just how central danger is to our worlds and our livelihood. Indeed, Kleinman offers in this book a groundbreaking approach to ethics, examining "who we are" through some of the most disturbing issues of our time--war, globalization, poverty, social injustice--all in the context of actual lived moral life.

作者简介

阿瑟·克莱曼(Arthur Kleinman,又名凯博文)，1967年获美国斯坦福大学医学博士学位，曾先后担任哈佛医学院社会医学部主任和哈佛大学人类学系主任，现任哈佛研究生院及医学院终身教授。

作为国际医学人类界和精神卫生研究领域的代表人物，他于1980年获得英国皇家人类学会医学人类学勋章。1983年起，任美国科学院医药学部终身委员、美国人文和科学学院院士、美国社会科学委员会顾问、世界卫生组织（WHO）顾问和美国国家健康研究院（NIH）资深顾问，并曾获美国人类学学会的最高奖项––博厄斯奖。

目录信息

Arthur Kleinman is Esther and Sidney Rabb Professor and Chair, Department of Anthropology, Harvard University, and Professor of Medical Anthropology in Social Medicine and Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School. A renowned psychiatrist and anthropologist, he has been awarded the Boas Prize (the highest award of the American Anthropological Association) and is a Distinguished Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association. He is a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies and of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
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我们所生活的这个世界并不会一直如我们的意愿改变。举个恶俗一点的例子，我天天都想着中500万，但是奇迹并没有发生，很可能，我在某天醒来发现自己维持生活的信心都没有了。新闻里报道的不幸事件，比如车祸、绝症，随时可能发生在我们身上。即使没有这些不幸的事件，我们也面临...  

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凯博文教授的《道德的重量》曾对我产生极大影响，读完此书后如遭电击，默然失语。是夜难眠，给几个朋友发短信：一定要读读这本书。我终究未能给这本书撰写什么书评，因为任何语言对应这本书所透露出的精神力量，都显得微不足道，甚至苍白可笑。 过了很久，在一次研讨会上碰...  

我们所生活的这个世界并不会一直如我们的意愿改变。举个恶俗一点的例子，我天天都想着中500万，但是奇迹并没有发生，很可能，我在某天醒来发现自己维持生活的信心都没有了。新闻里报道的不幸事件，比如车祸、绝症，随时可能发生在我们身上。即使没有这些不幸的事件，我们也面临...  

凯博文教授的《道德的重量》曾对我产生极大影响，读完此书后如遭电击，默然失语。是夜难眠，给几个朋友发短信：一定要读读这本书。我终究未能给这本书撰写什么书评，因为任何语言对应这本书所透露出的精神力量，都显得微不足道，甚至苍白可笑。 过了很久，在一次研讨会上碰...