The richness and variety of cross-cultural data has tremendous allure for those who pose the big questions about the nature of human nature. But the complexities of anthropological nuance and the difficulties of cross-cultural comparison have discouraged or defeated all but the most patient and brilliant of thinkers. Arthur Kleinman stands out as having not only devoted his professional life thus far to these complexities, but also gone further than anyone else in mastering them.

Rethinking Psychiatry is the personal theoretical distillation of Kleinman's positions on issues raised in the landmark collection