What Really Matters Living a Moral Life Amidst Uncertainty and Danger

Name: What Really Matters Living a Moral Life Amidst Uncertainty and Danger
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ISBN: 9780195331325

ISBN-10: 019533132X

ISBN-13: 9780195331325

Edition: 2008

Authors: Arthur Kleinman

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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…

Book details

List price: $32.99
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 10/29/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 272
Size: 7.80" wide x 5.12" long x 0.79" tall
Weight: 0.638
Language: English

Arthur Kleinmanis Professor of Medical Anthropology at Harvard University;Yunxiang Yanis a Professor at the University of California, Los Angeles;Jing Junis a Professor at Tsinghua University (Beijing);Sing Leeis a Professor at Chinese University of Hong Kong;Everett Zhangis a Professor at Princeton University;Pan Tianshuis a Professor at Fudan University (Shanghai);Wu FeiandGuo Jinhuaare Professors at Peking University (Beijing).




Introduction



Winthrop Cohen



Idi Bosquet-Remarque



Yan Zhongshu



Charles Kentworth Jamison



Sally Williams



Bill Burt/Simcha Adler



W.H.R. Rivers



Epilogue


Bibliographic


Note


Acknowledgments


Index