Byron Joseph Good

Byron Good, PhD, BD

Professor of Medical Anthropology in the Department of Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Member, HMS Center for Bioethics

Byron Good, PhD, is Professor of Medical Anthropology in the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School, and the Department of Anthropology, Harvard University. He received his BD from Harvard Divinity School and PhD from the University of Chicago. Prof. Good is a medical and psychological anthropologist who studies culture, mental illness, and mental health services and has been working in Indonesia since 1996. He has contributed to the development of a program in bioethics and medical humanities in Gadjah Mada University, Yogyakarta, Indonesia, and has been writing recently about hauntology and hauntological ethics. In 2017, he received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Society for Psychological Anthropology.

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Significance of the 686 Program for China and for global mental health.
Authors: Authors: Good BJ, Good MJ.
Shanghai Arch Psychiatry
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Age and remission of personality pathology in the psychotic disorders compared to mood and/or anxiety disorders.
Authors: Authors: Zhang T, Good MJ, Good BJ, Chow A, Wang L, Dai Y, Xiao Z.
Int J Psychiatry Med
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"To make a difference . . .": narrative desire in global medicine.
Authors: Authors: Good BJ, Good MJ.
Narrat Inq Bioeth
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Current legislation on admission of mentally ill patients in China.
Authors: Authors: Shao Y, Xie B, Good MD, Good BJ.
Int J Law Psychiatry
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Early intervention in psychosis: a case study on normal and pathological.
Authors: Authors: Tranulis C, Park L, Delano L, Good B.
Cult Med Psychiatry
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Conflict nightmares and trauma in Aceh.
Authors: Authors: Grayman JH, Good MJ, Good BJ.
Cult Med Psychiatry
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Transitions.
Authors: Authors: Good BJ, Good MJ.
Cult Med Psychiatry
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Culture and stigma: adding moral experience to stigma theory.
Authors: Authors: Yang LH, Kleinman A, Link BG, Phelan JC, Lee S, Good B.
Soc Sci Med
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Passing the torch.
Authors: Authors: Good BJ, Good MJ.
Cult Med Psychiatry
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First-episode psychosis: influences of culture and medical comorbidity.
Authors: Authors: Donald A, Good B, Forstein M, Beck S.
Harv Rev Psychiatry
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