The scientification of love / Michel Odent.

  • Odent, Michel, 1930-
Date:
1999
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Description

"Why do all cultures ritually disturb the first contact between mother and newborn baby? Why has there hitherto been an evolutionary advantage in developing human potential for aggression rather than the capacity to love?"-- Back cover.

Publication/Creation

London : Free Association Books, 1999.

Physical description

x, 115 pages ; 23 cm

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

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.

Notes

Copy 1. Donor: Family of Sheila Kitzinger.

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ISBN

  • 1853434760
  • 9781853434761