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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Culture and panic disorder: how far have we come?
Authors: Authors: Good BJ.
Cult Med Psychiatry
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Negotiating care: treating an African man with a central nervous system infection.
Authors: Authors: Lager C, Beckett A, Friedman R, Good BJ.
Harv Rev Psychiatry
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Clinician experiences of managed mental health care: a rereading of the threat.
Authors: Authors: Ware NC, Lachicotte WS, Kirschner SR, Cortes DE, Good BJ.
Med Anthropol Q
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The place of culture in DSM-IV.
Authors: Authors: Mezzich JE, Kirmayer LJ, Kleinman A, Fabrega H, Parron DL, Good BJ, Lin KM, Manson SM.
J Nerv Ment Dis
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Culture and DSM-IV: diagnosis, knowledge and power.
Authors: Authors: Good BJ.
Cult Med Psychiatry
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Oncology and narrative time.
Authors: Authors: Del Vecchio Good MJ, Munakata T, Kobayashi Y, Mattingly C, Good BJ.
Soc Sci Med
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In the subjunctive mode: epilepsy narratives in Turkey.
Authors: Authors: Good BJ, Del Vecchio Good MJ.
Soc Sci Med
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Oncologists vary in their willingness to undertake anti-cancer therapies.
Authors: Authors: Lind SE, DelVecchio Good MJ, Minkovitz CS, Good BJ.
Br J Cancer
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A critical review of epidemiological studies of Puerto Rican mental health.
Authors: Authors: Guarnaccia PJ, Good BJ, Kleinman A.
Am J Psychiatry
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American oncology and the discourse on hope.
Authors: Authors: Delvecchio Good MJ, Good BJ, Schaffer C, Lind SE.
Cult Med Psychiatry
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