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Also by Deborah Blum:

The Poisoner's Handbook, February 2011
Paperback / e-Book (reprint)
The Poisoner's Handbook, February 2010
Hardcover
Ghost Hunters, August 2006
Hardcover
A Field Guide for Science Writers, September 2005
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Love At Goon Park, February 2004
Paperback
Sex on the Brain, July 1999
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LOVE AT GOON PARK
By: Deborah Blum

Harry Harlow and the Science of Affection

Berkley
February 2004
On Sale: February 3, 2004
352 pages
ISBN: 0425194051
EAN: 9780425194058
Paperback
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Non-Fiction

We take it for granted today that babies need love. But less than a century ago, psychologists warned women against showing their children "too much affection"-predicting dire consequences ranging from deadly disease to sexual dysfunction in adulthood. The story of how this conventional wisdom was finally shattered takes us into the life and the laboratory of Harry Harlow-workaholic, alcoholic, brilliant and brave, capable of caustic wit and cruelty-and into an era in which the scientific establishment was just beginning to understand the power of human emotion.

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