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The Soul of Care
Arthur Kleinman's wife, Joan, began to struggle with a rare form of
early Alzheimer's disease at 59. Eight years after losing her, the
Esther and Sidney Rabb Professor of Anthropology in the Faculty of Arts
and Sciences and professor of psychiatry and of medical anthropology at
Harvard Medical School chronicles their journey in "The Soul of Care:
The Moral Education of a Husband and a Doctor." The book is part memoir,
part examination of love and marriage, and an intimate look at how 40
years in the medical profession left him entirely unprepared to care for
a loved one.
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