Arthur Kleinman has worked for three decades as a medical anthropologist, both in the Department of Anthropology at Harvard and in the Department of Social Medicine at the Harvard Medical School. A physician-anthropologist, from 1991 to 2000 he chaired Harvard’s Department of Social Medicine. He is presently the chair of the Department of Anthropology. His current research interests include the experience of chronic illness, social suffering, depression, emerging infectious diseases, substance abuse, suicide, political violence, trauma, aging, ethnicity, and disabilities.