The Scientific Narratives of Health Outcomes with Dr. Anne Harrington

In this episode, Jaansi sits down with Dr. Anne Harrington to explore how science, especially medicine and mental health, operates not only through data, but through powerful stories. Together, they discuss how cultural narratives shape psychiatric knowledge, how historical decisions continue to influence mental health care today, and what emerging technologies like AI and psychedelics reveal about the future of healing, ethics, and health equity. Dr. Anne Harrington is a professor in the History of Science department at Harvard University and an internationally recognized scholar of psychiatry, neuroscience, and the mind sciences. Her work examines how scientific and medical knowledge shapes understandings of suffering, healing, and human identity, with a particular focus on mental health. She is the author of several widely cited works on the history of the brain and psychiatry and is known for bridging science, medicine, and the humanities in her scholarship. ​ Check out Dr. Harrington’s work: The Cure Within: Harvard History of Science faculty page: histsci.fas.harvard.edu/people/anne-harrington

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The Scientific Narratives of Health Outcomes with Dr. Anne Harrington is an episode from LearnOn Podcast: The Science Show By Kids, For Kids! by Jaansi Patel.

This episode is 00:32:11 long.

This episode was published on Jan 12, 2026.

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