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Anne Harrington Profiled by the Harvard Crimson Magazine

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The Harvard Crimson Magazine recently profiled Franklin L. Ford Professor of the History of Science Anne Harrington about her new course HISTSCI 1771: Science and the Quest for Consciousness . The article highlights how the course “asks profound questions...

Prof. Anne Harrington Discusses Her New Book on NPR

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Terry Gross, host of National Public Radio's "Fresh Air," welcomed Prof. Anne Harrington to discuss her latest book, Mind Fixers: Psychiatry's Troubled Search for the Biology of Mental Illness. Listen in or read the transcript!

Anne Harrington

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Areas of Research: History of Medicine, Human Sciences, Medical Humanities, Psychiatry and Mental Health, Mind-Body Medicine, Neuroscience, Consciousness Studies

Anne Harrington is the Franklin L. Ford Professor of the History of Science, specializing in...

Mind Fixers: Psychiatry's Troubled Search for the Biology of Mental Illness

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In Mind Fixers, “the preeminent historian of neuroscience” (Science magazine) Anne Harrington explores psychiatry’s repeatedly frustrated efforts to understand mental disorder. She shows that psychiatry’s waxing and waning theories have been shaped not...

Reenchanted Science: Holism in German Culture from Wilhelm II to Hitler

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By the 1920s in Central Europe, it had become a truism among intellectuals that natural science had "disenchanted" the world, and in particular had reduced humans to mere mechanisms, devoid of higher purpose. But could a new science of "wholeness" heal...

"Attention, Undergrad Shoppers..."

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Surveying the controlled bedlam that is the "add-drop" period, the Harvard Gazette captured a moment in Prof. Anne Harrington's "Madness & Medicine," Culture & Belief 34. Harvard Gazette, 9/13/2018 • Kris Snibbe/Harvard Staff Photographer

HISTSCI 1771: Science and the Quest for Consciousness

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With Professor Anne Harrington on Thursday at 12:00-2:45 pm In 1990, in a paper cited more than 3,000 times, Nobel Prize-winning microbiologist Francis Crick and neurobiologist Christof Koch declared "the time is now ripe for an attack on the neural basis...

MBB Distinguished Harvard Lecture: Professor Anne Harrington

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Title: The 1980s Biological Revolution in Psychiatry: What Really Happened and What Really Happened Next The 1980s, by common consensus, saw a big and remarkably rapid pivot away from previously dominant psychoanalytic and social science perspectives in...

HISTSCI 1772: Mental Health Matters: Historical Themes and Unfinished Business

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This course offers an opportunity to explore some of the unfinished business of modern-day mental health care, using an historical lens. Mental health matters! But history matters too, because understanding the forces that have brought us to our current...

Advising

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The History and Science concentration has a friendly team of advisers to help you navigate through the program. History and Science Concentration Advisers Allie Belser , Manager of Student Programs, acts as the primary concentration adviser for all...

Mind, Brain, & Behavior Panel Discussion: What is Mental Illness? A Humanistic, Genetic, & Cognitive Perspective

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How have people thought about mental illness in different cultures, and are there positive aspects associated with it, thinking historically and scientifically? Should we think of mental illness as categorically different or as deviations from the normal...

Senior HistSci Concentrator Swathi Srinivasan Receives Rhodes Scholarship

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Prof. Anne Harrington and the Undergrad Program are delighted to share the news that senior concentrator Swathi Srinivasan has been named a 2021 Rhodes Scholar! From the official announcement: "Swathi R. Srinivasan, of Beachwood, Ohio, USA, is a senior at...