Byron Good, PhD, BD

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.