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


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

 
Description: ISBN 0738202789 / Genre: Biography / Author: Deborah Blum / Edition: illustrated edition / Hardcover / 320 Pages / Book is published ... more
Love at Goon Park: Harry Harlow and the Science of Affection - Deborah Blum ... 2002-09-12 by Perseus Books

Newest Review: ... of affection between mother and child are condemned by eminent psychologists as 'damaging to character'. In this world, which ... more

 ... reads like a parallel world so near and so far from our own, the field of animal behaviour is led by figures such as Pavlov and B.F.Skinner, to whom an animal is an unthinking box of conditioned reflexes. This is a culture that wishes to compartmentalise and to cleanse: to organise disorder, simplify that which cannot be understood: to lock all infants in spotless isolation, for the good of their health and their character. Against this scientific backdrop Blum plots the tale of Harry Harlow: of how a stuttering, ...more

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Premium Review Love at Goon Park: Harry Harlow and the Science of Affection - Deborah Blum: A little in love with Love at Goon Park (849 words)
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'He was born out of place: a dreamer and a poet planted in the practical Iowa earth. As unlikely as a rose in a cornfield...he was such a funny little misfit of a child, hemmed in by orderly fields, too often dreaming down those rows of green and gold to the point where they met the rim of the sky.' So begins Deborah Blum's description of Harry Harlow, behaviourist, visionary and subject of the biography 'Love at Goon Park'. Not exactly the dry opening perhaps anticipated in a scientific work, but then, as the book goes on to demonstrate, Harlow was a man who deserved a rather more unusual, lyrical introduction. In a sterile, emotionally stilted period, Harry ...  Read the complete review

 

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