Anne Harrington

Anne Harrington, Ph.D. has been invited to Emory University this spring as a Nat C. Robertson Distinguished Professor in Science & Society. At Harvard University, she is the Loeb Harvard College Professor and Professor for the History of Science, specializing in the history of psychiatry, neuroscience, and the other mind sciences. She is also Visiting Professor for Medical History at the London School of Economics, where she co-edits a new journal called Biosocieties.

Dr. Harrington received her Ph.D. in the History of Science from Oxford University in 1985, and has held postdoctoral fellowships at the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine in London, and the University of Freiburg in Germany.

For six years, she co-directed Harvard's Mind, Brain, and Behavior Initiative, and served separately as a consultant for the MacArthur Foundation Research Network on Mind-Body Interactions, where she worked on projects ranging from placebo effects, to trance phenomena, to group therapy for breast cancer.

Currently Dr. Harrington serves on the Board of the Mind and Life Institute, an organization dedicated to developing constructive dialogue between Buddhism and the sciences. 

She has published many articles and produced a range of edited collections on topics related to Panel Discussion at Emory, including The Placebo Effect (1997), Visions of Compassion (2000), and the forthcoming The Dalai Lama at MIT. She is the author of two additional books: Medicine, Mind and the Double Brain (1987) and Reenchanted Science: Holism and German Culture from Wilhelm II to Hitler (1997). 

Her most recent book, in final preparation, is called Stories under the Skin: the Making of Mind-Body Medicine in America and will be published by W.W. Norton.

Copyright 2006, Program in Science & Society
Contact: Jim Wynn at jrwynn@emory.edu