Health Science and the Replication Crisis: Anthropological Perspectives

Harvard FAS

Over the last two decades, health scientists have grown increasingly concerned about a perceived methodological crisis centered on the reliable replication of research findings—a crisis exacerbated in the United States by growing public mistrust in health science and, more recently, government efforts to intervene in the independence of scientific institutions and knowledge production practices. This seminar draws on anthropological perspectives to examine critically what has come to be known…