Pioneering medical anthropologist Arthur Kleinman is set to retire after nearly 50 years at Harvard, emphasizing the critical impact of care through his teaching. In his final seminar, former students celebrated his ability to bridge medicine, social science, and the humanities, reflecting on how his work promotes cross-cultural understanding and well-being. Kleinman's insight that knowledge connects to improving the human condition rather than merely economic interests serves as a legacy, encouraging a broader perspective in medical practice and anthropology.
"Care, critically understood and practiced, matters most," he told a packed lecture hall last week. "This is at the center of whatever claim I can make to wisdom and truth."
"The gift that he leaves us with is the idea that knowledge is not only linked to patents and businesses," offered Adams House Faculty Dean Salmaan A. Keshavjee. "It's linked to a better understanding of how to improve the human condition."
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