Berton H. Kaplan
Associate Faculty Scholar, Duke Institute on Care at the End of Life
Professor
Emeritus of Epidemiology, UNC School of Public Health
B.A. Virginia Polytechnic Institute
M.S. University of North Carolina
Ph.D.
University of North Carolina
Dr. Kaplan has spent most of his career teaching in the departments of Epidemiology and Anthropology at the University of North Carolina. He has also served as the director for the UNC Russell Sage Law and Society Seminar Program, the director of the training program: Psychosocial Factors in Mental Health and Disease, the Deputy Chairman for Academic Affairs, and the founder and chair of the Carolina Seminar on Forgiveness and Health. Dr. Kaplan’s research has focused on various aspects of community as they affect health. His continuing interests include: religion and health, including the evidence for the dark side of religion in history past and present; social psychiatry; how to study different types of forgiveness; the impact on social life for religions without an end time concept; and the theme of David and Betty Hamburg's recent book (2004), reflected in title: Learning to Live Together: Preventing Hatred and Violence in Child and Adolescent Development. NY: Oxford Press. 20th Century religious hatreds/genocides are research fodder for the Hamburg's thesis.
