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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Telling the diagnosis of cancer.
Authors: Authors: Lind SE, DelVecchio Good MJ, Seidel S, Csordas T, Good BJ.
J Clin Oncol
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Disabling practitioners: hazards of learning to be a doctor in American medical education.
Authors: Authors: Good MJ, Good BJ.
Am J Orthopsychiatry
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Ritual, the state, and the transformation of emotional discourse in Iranian society.
Authors: Authors: DelVecchio Good MJ, Good BJ.
Cult Med Psychiatry
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Do patient attitudes influence physician recognition of psychosocial problems in primary care?
Authors: Authors: Good MJ, Good BJ, Cleary PD.
J Fam Pract
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Patient requests in primary health care settings: development and validation of a research instrument.
Authors: Authors: Good MD, Good BJ, Nassi AJ.
J Behav Med
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Reflexivity and countertransference in a psychiatric cultural consultation clinic.
Authors: Authors: Good BJ, Herrera H, Good MJ, Cooper J.
Cult Med Psychiatry
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Diagnostic profile of a family practice clinic: patients with psychosocial diagnoses.
Authors: Authors: Stumbo D, Good MJ, Good BJ.
J Fam Pract
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When rational men fall sick: an inquiry into some assumptions made by medical anthropologists. Comment.
Authors: Authors: Good BJ.
Cult Med Psychiatry
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Priorities for research to advance the comparative study of medical systems: summary of the discussion at the final session of the conference.
Authors: Authors: Dunn FL, Good BJ.
Soc Sci Med
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Culture, illness, and care: clinical lessons from anthropologic and cross-cultural research.
Authors: Authors: Kleinman A, Eisenberg L, Good B.
Ann Intern Med
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