The scientification of love / Michel Odent.

London : Free Association Books, 1999.

x, 115 pages ; 23 cm

Copy 1. Donor: Family of Sheila Kitzinger.

Foreword / Miriam Stoppard -- Introduction -- The Power of Love -- 1. Prehistory -- The Unbroken Mirror -- 2. Learning from Ducklings, Sheep and Monkeys -- 3. Love Hormones and Childbirth -- 4. The Primal Health Research Perspective -- 5. The Ethnological Approach -- Comparing Cultures -- 6. Birth Reborn -- 7. Sexuality as a Whole -- 8. Sexual Attractiveness -- 9. The Physiology of Romantic Love -- 10. Who's my Mother? -- 11. Love of Animals for Humans -- 12. Orgasmic States, Ecstatic States and Mystical Emotions -- 13. Love of the Whole -- 14. Links between Birthing and Praying -- 15. Releasing the Brakes with Water -- 16. Love at a Molecular Level -- Babyist' Interlude 1. The Twenty-Second Century from the Baby's Perspective -- Babyist' Interlude 2. Don't Bite Your Mum! -- Linguistic Note: About the Suffix '-ation' -- 17. Science-Tradition Convergence -- 18. Homo Ecologicus.

Includes bibliographical references and index.