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Just hours after returning from a trip to China, Anthropology Professor Arthur Kleinman delivered a talk about the long-standing stigmatization and subsequent marginalization of the mentally ill population in Chinese society...
Further comparing the U.S. and China, Kleinman noted that Chinese mental illness hospitals emphasize the protection of society from the mentally ill—a mindset that cultivates a perception of the mentally ill as unpredictable, out of control, and potentially dangerous...
...especially at an institution as competitive as Harvard, the fear of mediocrity looms. This fear is at the center of the student-written play “Leah.” Grappling with questions of personal destiny, excellence, and regret, the production chronicles the misadventures of an ill-fated young woman trying desperately to be exceptional...
...works in metals, takes the lead in the outrage stakes. She's mad at herself for not producing enough and at the art world for ignoring her, but she's most furious about having cancer, a rare form called mesothelioma, linked to asbestos exposure. Her family laments that illness is not bringing out the best in Glynis. She disagrees: "Maybe the best in me, to me, is hateful, vindictive and ill wishing ... I wish everyone else were ill, too." (See 10 health care reform...
...Wells, MOLINE, ILL...