Anne Harrington: Culture in the Brain and Under the Skin: What Historians Know about Illness Experience and Why it Matters

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Tue., Oct. 23, 2012, 1:00pm

Culture in the Brain and Under the Skin:
What Historians Know about Illness Experience and Why it Matters

Dr. Anne Harrington, Harvard University.
Tuesday, Oct. 23rd 1PM
*Room change to Classroom 3*, University of King’s College, 6350 Coburg Rd., Halifax, NS

Free - Limited Seating
Light lunch provided from 12:30PM

Dr. Harrington is Professor for the History of Science at Harvard University and author of Medicine, Mind and the Double Brain (1987), Reenchanted Science (1997) and The Cure Within: A History of Mind-Body Medicine (2007).

Sponsored by:
Atlantic Node of Situating Science, Evolution Studies Group (with support from Canadian Institute for Advanced Research), University of King’s College History of Science and Technology Programme, and the Dalhousie University Neuroscience Institute.

Supported by:
Canadian Centre for Ethics in Public Affairs (www.ceepa.ca)

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