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A professor of the history of science at Harvard University, Anne Harrington specializes in the history of psychiatry, neuroscience, and other mind sciences and has looked searchingly at the “faith factor” in medicine and the “health factor” in religion. She served for six years as co-director of Harvard’s Mind, Brain, and Behavior Interfaculty Initiative and as a member of the MacArthur Foundation’s Research Network on Mind-Body Interactions. She currently serves as a board member of the Mind and Life Institute, an organization that facilitates dialogue and empirical research between biobehavioral scientists and Buddhist scholars. A summa cum laude graduate of Harvard College, Dr. Harrington earned a D.Phil. in modern history at Oxford University in 1985. After completing post-doctoral fellowships at the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine in London and the University of Freiburg, she returned to Harvard as an assistant professor of the history of science in 1988. Named Morris Kahn Associate Professor three years later, she was appointed to her present position in 1995. She will spend the 2004-05 academic year as professor for the history of medicine at a new interdisciplinary Bios Centre at the London School of Economics and Political Science. From 1999 to 2002, Dr. Harrington chaired the working group of Harvard faculty that established the conceptual basis for new forms of multidisciplinary research on the placebo effect. She also served for two years as the principal investigator in an intercultural collaboration project involving traditional Chinese medical practitioners and American laboratory scientists. She is presently a consultant to the Henry R. Luce Foundation Interdisciplinary Professorship Program. In addition to articles published in scholarly journals and book chapters, she has edited four books and is the author of two others, Medicine, Mind and the Double Brain: A Study of Nineteenth Century Thought (1987) and Reenchanted Science: Holism in German Culture from Wilhelm II to Hitler, which was published in 1997 by Princeton University Press. She has just completed Stories under the Skin: Body and Culture in the Making of Mind-Body Science. It will be published by W.W. Norton.
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