Arthur Kleinman, Professor of Medical Anthropology in Social Medicine and Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, from The New Medicine, eds. Ronald H. Blummer & Muffie Meyer.
Dr. Kleinman advocates for the opportunity that patients and doctors have to "reaffirm their humanity:"
[With] the understanding that life is important not just for the repairing of our broken bones and the fixing of our broken hearts, but because we deal with what is serious, what is most at stake for us, what matters most in living [...] two people [doctor and patient] have the rare privilege of coming together in the context of that interaction. (111)
This realized interaction is “a fantastic way of remaking our world, of making the world more human."
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