Deborah Blum: 7 books
by Deborah Blum
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 1995
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 1995
The controversy over the use of primates in research admits of no easy answers. We have all benefited from the medical discoveries of primate research--vaccines for polio, rubella, and hepatitis B are just a few. But we have also learned more in recent years about how intelligent apes and monkeys...
The Poison Squad
One Chemist's Single-Minded Crusade for Food Safety at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2018
**A New York Times Notable Book
From Pulitzer Prize winner and New York Times-bestselling author Deborah Blum, the dramatic true story of how food was made safe in the United States and the heroes, led by the inimitable Dr. Harvey Washington Wiley, who fought for change**
By the end...
Sex on the Brain
The Biological Differences Between Men and Women
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 1998
Go beyond the headlines and the hype to get the newest findings in the burgeoning field of gender studies. Drawing on disciplines that include evolutionary science, anthropology, animal behavior, neuroscience, psychology, and endocrinology, Deborah Blum explores matters ranging from the link between...
Love at Goon Park
Harry Harlow and the Science of Affection
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2011
In the early twentieth century, affection between parents and their children was discouraged-psychologists thought it would create needy kids, and doctors thought it would spread infectious disease. It took a revolution in psychology to overturn these beliefs and prove that touch ensures emotional...
The Poisoner's Handbook
Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2011
**Equal parts true crime, twentieth-century history, and science thriller, The Poisoner's Handbook is "a vicious, page-turning story that reads more like Raymond Chandler than Madame Curie"—**The New York Observer
A fascinating Jazz Age tale of chemistry and detection, poison and...
Ghost Hunters
William James and the Search for Scientific Proof of Life After Death
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2007
The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Poision Squad and The Poisoner's Handbook tells the amazing story of William James's quest for empirical evidence of the spirit world
What if a world -renowned philosopher and professor of psychiatry at Harvard suddenly announced he believed in ghosts?...
Coming of Age
The Sexual Awakening of Margaret Mead
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2017
The startling coming-of-age story of famed anthropologist Margaret Mead whose radical ideas challenged the social and sexual norms of her time.
The story begins in 1923, when twenty-two year old Margaret Mead is living in New York City, engaged to her childhood sweetheart and on the verge of...