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UnavailableMarga Vicedo, “The Nature and Nurture of Love” (University of Chicago Press, 2013)
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Marga Vicedo, “The Nature and Nurture of Love” (University of Chicago Press, 2013)

FromNew Books in Science, Technology, and Society


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Marga Vicedo, “The Nature and Nurture of Love” (University of Chicago Press, 2013)

FromNew Books in Science, Technology, and Society

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Length:
73 minutes
Released:
Oct 19, 2013
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Podcast episode

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Between WWII and the 1970s, prominent researchers from various fields established and defended a view that emotions are integral to the self, and that a mother’s love determines an individual’s emotional development. In Marga Vicedo, The Nature and Nurture of Love: From Imprinting to Attachment in Cold War America  (University of Chicago Press, 2013), Marga Vicedo explores the emergence of the science of children’s emotional needs in the twentieth century. Masterfully bringing together approaches from the history and philosophy of the biological sciences, Vicedo’s book focuses on British psychoanalyst and psychiatrist John Bowlby (1907-1990), whose ethological work became one of the most influential and controversial psychological theories of the 20th century. Vicedo uses the story of Bowlby’s science to explore a broader modern history of work on animal and human behavior that includes Konrad Lorenz, Anna Freud, Benjamin Spock, and Niko Tinbergen, among others. Along the way, The Nature & Nurture of Love chronicles the emergence of a kind of anthropomorphic material culture of the human sciences, inhabiting its story with a fascinating cast of robots, dolls, geese, monkeys, and stuffed animals, as well as humans. It is a fascinating and gripping trans-disciplinary story and an absolute pleasure to read.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Released:
Oct 19, 2013
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