The practice of wisdom
"Four renowned professors -- a physician, a theologian, an anthropologist, and a historian -- offer a master class on living in uncertain times. Affirming that wisdom is not a destination but a way of being, the authors follow the paths by which diverse people have met illness, upheaval, and moral t...
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge, Massachusetts :
The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press,
2026.
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| Summary: | "Four renowned professors -- a physician, a theologian, an anthropologist, and a historian -- offer a master class on living in uncertain times. Affirming that wisdom is not a destination but a way of being, the authors follow the paths by which diverse people have met illness, upheaval, and moral trial through acts of imagination, faith, and reflection."-- Provided by publisher. |
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| Physical Description: | pages ; cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780674306622 0674306627 |
| Author Notes: | Arthur Kleinman has taught for over forty years in the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School and in the Department of Anthropology, where he is Rabb Professor. He is the author of The Illness Narratives: Suffering, Healing, and the Human Condition and The Soul of Care: The Moral Education of a Husband and a Doctor . Stephanie Paulsell is Swartz Professor of the Practice of Christian Studies, Emerita, at Harvard Divinity School. She is a former columnist at the Christian Century , the author of Religion Around Virginia Woolf, and coeditor of Toni Morrison . Michael Puett, Walter C. Klein Professor of Chinese History and Anthropology and Director of the Asia Center at Harvard University, is the author of The Path: What Chinese Philosophers Can Teach Us About the Good Life and To Become a God: Cosmology, Sacrifice, and Self-Divinization in Early China . |
