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Book Cover for: Love at Goon Park: Harry Harlow and the Science of Affection, Deborah Blum

Love at Goon Park: Harry Harlow and the Science of Affection

Deborah Blum

In Love at Goon Park, Pulitzer Prize-winner Deborah Blum charts a profound cultural shift from how doctors discouraged parents from touching their children to when that belief was overturned, and in doing so proved the emotional and intellectual benefits of touch. Through studying neglect and its life-altering consequences on primates in his lab, Harry Harlow confirmed love's central role in shaping not only how we feel but also how we think. The story of an evolution of both a man and an idea, Love at Goon Park ultimately invites us to examine ourselves and the way we love.

Book Details

  • Publisher: Basic Books
  • Publish Date: Jul 5th, 2011
  • Pages: 368
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 8.31in - 5.64in - 1.01in - 0.81lb
  • EAN: 9780465026012
  • Recommended age: 18-UP
  • Categories: Developmental - Lifespan DevelopmentInterpersonal RelationsHistory

About the Author

Blum, Deborah: - Deborah Blum won a Pulitzer Prize for her writing and reporting about primate experiments and ethics, a subject that she further explored in her first book, The Monkey Wars. She is also the author of The Poisoner's Handbook (a New York Times best seller) as well as Sex on the Brain and Ghost Hunters. Blum is a professor of journalism at the University of Wisconsin and has written for several major newspapers.

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