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Anne Harrington

Anne Harrington
Anne Harrington is the Franklin L. Ford Professor of the History of Science and faculty dean of Pforzheimer House at Harvard University. She is the author of four books, including Mind Fixers and The Cure Within. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.


On Early 20th-Century America’s Unhealthy Fixation with ‘Hygiene’

Junk Science, Paternalism, and a Misplaced Faith in 'Expertise'
April 25, 2019  By Anne Harrington
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