| Center for the History of Medicine, Countway Library is pleased to share information about the Boston Medical Library’s 17th Annual J. Worth Estes Lecture |
| 1980s Biological Revolution in Psychiatry: What Really Happened, and What Really Happened Next, with Anne Harrington, Ph.D. Dr. Harrington is the Franklin L. Ford Professor of the History of Science, Harvard University, and is the author of four books, including Re-enchanted Science, The Cure Within, and Mind Fixers. Register here. The 1980’s saw a rapid pivot away from previously dominant psychoanalytic and social science perspectives in psychiatry towards a “medical model.” However, the standard understanding as to why this occurred is wrong. Revolution was declared back then, but not because there had been scientific breakthroughs. We need a new and better understanding of what really happened in the 1980s. Those ideas have directly shaped the fraught world of psychiatrty with which we live today. Questions about this event? Please contact the Boston Medical Library. |
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