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Overview

Byron J. Good is affiliated with Harvard University in the United States and conducts research primarily in the fields of psychology and social sciences. Their work spans multiple subfields including social psychology, clinical psychology, general health professions, psychiatry and mental health, as well as sociology and political science.

The scientist has contributed extensively to topics related to mental health treatment and access, family caregiving in mental illness, schizophrenia research and treatment, memory, trauma and commemoration, anthropological studies and insights, Asian studies and history, and cultural differences and values.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Byron J. Good include:

  • The Anthropology of Being Haunted: On the Emergence of an Anthropological Hauntology (2022, Annual Review of Anthropology)
  • Cultural explanations of psychotic illness and care-seeking of family caregivers in Java, Indonesia (2020, Transcultural Psychiatry)
  • Development and Evaluation of a Mental Health Training Program for Community Health Workers in Indonesia (2020, Community Mental Health Journal)
  • The principles of recovery-oriented mental health services: A review of the guidelines from five different countries for developing a protocol to be implemented in Yogyakarta, Indonesia (2023, PLoS ONE)
  • Afterword: Haunted histories and the silences of everyday life (2021, History and Anthropology)

Byron J. Good has frequently collaborated with other researchers throughout their career. Among their common co-authors are Mary-Jo DelVecchio Good, M. A. Subandi, Devon E. Hinton, Carla Raymondalexas Marchira, and Andrea Chiovenda.

The scientist has published work in various academic venues, with multiple contributions in journals such as PLoS ONE, Annual Review of Anthropology, Community Mental Health Journal, Transcultural Psychiatry, and History and Anthropology.

In addition to journal articles, Byron J. Good has authored book publications, including titles published by Stanford University Press eBooks. One notable book is Culture and Panic Disorder, published in 2020.

Best Publications

  • Culture, Illness, and Care: Clinical Lessons from Anthropologic and Cross-Cultural Research

    Arthur Kleinman;Leon Eisenberg;Byron J. Good

  • Medicine, Rationality and Experience: An Anthropological Perspective

    Byron J. Good

  • Culture and stigma: adding moral experience to stigma theory.

    Lawrence Hsin Yang;Arthur Kleinman;Bruce G. Link;Jo C. Phelan

  • World Mental Health: Problems and Priorities in Low-Income Countries

    Robert Desjarlais;Leon Eisenberg;Byron Good;Arthur Kleinman

  • The heart of what's the matter. The semantics of illness in Iran.

    Byron J. Good

  • Culture and depression : studies in the anthropology and cross-cultural psychiatry of affect and disorder

    Byron Good;Arthur Kleinman

  • American oncology and the discourse on hope.

    Mary-Jo del Vecchio Good;Byron J. Good;Cynthia Schaffer;Stuart E. Lind

  • Medicine, rationality, and experience

    Byron Good

  • Subjectivity: Ethnographic Investigations

    João Guilherme Biehl;Byron Good;Arthur Kleinman

  • The Meaning of Symptoms: A Cultural Hermeneutic Model for Clinical Practice

    Byron J. Good;Mary-Jo Delvecchio Good

  • The place of culture in DSM-IV.

    Juan E. Mezzich;Laurence J. Kirmayer;Arthur Kleinman;Horacio Fabrega

  • Introduction: Rethinking Subjectivity

    João Biehl;Byron Good;Arthur Kleinman

  • In the subjunctive mode: epilepsy narratives in Turkey.

    Byron J. Good;Mary-Jo Del Vecchio Good;Isenbike Togan;Zafer Ilbars

  • “What matters most:” A cultural mechanism moderating structural vulnerability and moral experience of mental illness stigma

    Lawrence H. Yang;Fang pei Chen;Kathleen Janel Sia;Jonathan Lam

  • A critical review of epidemiological studies of Puerto Rican mental health.

    Peter J. Guarnaccia;Byron J. Good;Arthur Kleinman

  • Oncology and narrative time

    Mary-Jo Del Vecchio Good;Tseunetsugu Munakata;Yasuki Kobayashi;Cheryl Mattingly

  • Telling the diagnosis of cancer.

    S E Lind;M J DelVecchio Good;S Seidel;T Csordas

  • A Methodology for Cross-cultural Ethnomedical Research [and Comments and Reply]

    C. H. Browner;Bernard R. Ortiz de Montellano;Arthur J. Rubel;Jean Benoist

  • Cross-cultural studies of depression.

    Janis H. Jenkins;Arthur Kleinman;Byron J. Good

  • The Culture of Medicine and Racial, Ethnic, and Class Disparities in Healthcare

    Mary‐Jo DelVecchio Good;Cara James;Byron J. Good;Anne E. Becker

  • A Reader in Medical Anthropology: Theoretical Trajectories, Emergent Realities

    Byron J. Good

Frequent Co-Authors

Devon E. Hinton
Devon E. Hinton Harvard University
Lawrence H. Yang
Lawrence H. Yang New York University
Nick Patterson
Nick Patterson Harvard University
Janis H. Jenkins
Janis H. Jenkins University of California, San Diego
Spero M. Manson
Spero M. Manson University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
Jo C. Phelan
Jo C. Phelan Columbia University
Cheryl Mattingly
Cheryl Mattingly University of Southern California
Norma C. Ware
Norma C. Ware Harvard University
Daniel E. Lieberman
Daniel E. Lieberman Harvard University
Clifford Geertz
Clifford Geertz Institute for Advanced Study

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