Arthur Kleinman shares his experience on teaching global health to Harvard undergraduates with Jim Kim, Paul Farmer, Anne Becker, and Salmaan Keshavjee in The Lancet , describing the social theories used to make more general sense of individual case studies in global health implementation and explaining why the introduction of “intellectual frameworks that lead to both a deeper critical reflection on disease and caregiving and new tools to improve practice” to students is long overdue.