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  • Paperback: 368 pages
  • Publisher: Basic Books; Second Edition edition (July 5, 2011)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 046502601X
  • ISBN-13: 978-0465026012
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5.0 out of 5 starsLooking at love
By Edith L. McLaurin on October 22, 2002
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"Love At Goon Park" is a fascinating look at a man and his work. Deborah Blum provides the reader with an extensive and sobering background before exploring Harry Harlow's research. Did you know that as recently as the 1950s, psychologists were trying to convince parents that too much cuddling and "love" were bad for their children? Harlow, with his revolutionary experiments on baby monkeys, was bucking the conventional wisdom of his time. He was trying to say that mother's love mattered, that touch mattered, that affection mattered. His peers didn't want to hear this, but Harlow's research finally forced the profession to listen.
Blum's writing is never dry, never boring. She writes with amazing flair and humanity. You'll feel that you are getting to know this person, Harry Harlow. Even more, you'll feel you are there in the lab with Harlow and his graduate students, waiting to see how the baby monkeys will react to the latest experiment. What will we learn? Will anyone listen? Blum cares, and you'll care too.
You can't help but feel for the monkeys when you read this book. And Blum doesn't gloss over the issue of abuse, especially mental, that was visited on our primate cousins in the name of science. "Goon Park" takes an unflinching look at Harry Harlow, warts and all. I think her treatment of all the issues was fair and balanced.
I highly recommend "Love At Goon Park." It's well-written, interesting and important.
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5.0 out of 5 starsScience of love and the darker love for science
By A Customer on October 16, 2002
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Harry Harlow was an "envelope pusher" who,increasingly driven to find answers to the most fundamental questions about why we both need and give love, transformed himself into a strident and self-righteous researcher -- admired and hated by his colleagues. This book tells the story in a gripping manner, really putting the reader "inside the mind-set" of a researcher who, driven by his own sense of being unloved, developed a seeming manaic compulsion to dissect and analyze the nature of love. He did it in a way that both enthralled and infuriated others.

The primate research lab at the department of psychology of the University of Madison is the setting for this absorbing book. Here, we also learn of academic subterfuge and conspiracy, and the irony of psychologists behaving in a severely dysfunctional manner. The title refers to the address of the lab, which was 600 N. Park, but often looked like "Goon Park" when scrawled by hand on envelopes and memos. This is great science writing that is balanced, insightful, and manages to capture both the beauty and the ugliness of scientific research without taking a pious stance. Quite a neat trick, but Deborah Blum pulls it off and brings this overlooked episode of psychology research into the forefront of our understanding of how science is really practiced. Very readable, with fascinating insights throughout. Even if you're thinking "Harry WHO?" you will, after completing this book, feel that everyone should know about his life and work.
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5.0 out of 5 starsRewriting History
By Rick Bogle on September 2, 2004
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Whether by design or naiveté, Blum's Love at Goon Park tells the story of Harry Harlow in such a way that readers with only a passing familiarity with Harlow will come away from the book with the impression that in spite of the clearly troubling nature of his experimental manipulations of baby monkeys, science and humanity - especially young human children - were well served. And readers will have the impression that such things are not allowed in today's laboratories: we have progressed ethically since the days of Harlow.

Blum accomplishes these goals in various ways. One the one hand she blindly (or carefully) omits some key points about Harlow's earliest work with monkeys. She gets it right when explaining that Harlow was surprised that monkeys are highly intelligent problem solvers who are adept at applying past knowledge to novel situations. Harlow felt and wrote that monkeys and humans have the same sort of minds. Blum does not mention the fact that Harlow, upon leaning of these seemingly profound implications, began damaging monkeys' brains and then testing their previous problem solving abilities. (See for instance, his 1950 publication in Science: "The effect of large cortical lesions on learned behavior in monkeys.") Blum also fails to mention the radiation studies Harlow conducted on monkeys. (See for instance, his 1956 publication in the Journal of Comparative Physiology and Psychology: "The effects of repeated doses of total-body x radiation on motivation and learning in rhesus monkeys.") Thus, readers do not understand Harlow's willingness to hurt animals prior to beginning his studies on attachment.Read more ›
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5.0 out of 5 starsImportant lessons that must not be forgotten
By Peter Marrier on April 18, 2004
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A very well written book, telling the story of a man, and of the revolution he caused in psychology. There is a lot of irony in this story. If Harry Harlow's experiments strike us as intolerably cruel now, that is due in large part because we know the results of those experiments.
There are important lessons here for present and future parents, researchers, and activists. And even if you don't fall into one of those categories, it's still a fascinating story that is well worth reading.
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5.0 out of 5 starsIf you have any interest in psychology at all you need to read this...

In class they teach you a little about the history of psychology but this book really gets in depth about the zeitgeist and about how important Harlow's work was.

Published 1 month ago by Sue Donym
1.0 out of 5 starsSo what have we learned here?

Something I would like everyone to consider; Once you have justified cruelty against non-human creatures, to do so against people, all you have to do is dehumanize them. Read more

Published 20 months ago by Juli D. Kring
5.0 out of 5 starsDon't leave a baby alone to cry it out!

Great read! I read it for a qualitative research doctoral class. Was pleased to follow the history of love & affection. I've recommended this book to many others.

Published 20 months ago by Andrea Anderson
5.0 out of 5 starsFacinating

High recommend this book--anyone who is interested in the development of psychology as a field, the research pertaining to attachment and love and a behind the scenes look into... Read more

Published on April 11, 2014 by C. Garcia
5.0 out of 5 starstouching, introspective, historical, and informative

Harlow gets sort of demonized at first glance on places like wikipedia, but this book really helped me to understand why he did what he did, and just how much good came out of it. Read more

Published on April 2, 2014 by dude man
5.0 out of 5 starsThis is a sometimes difficult read, but fascinating.

This is a sometimes difficult read, but fascinating. He did amazing studies to show a baby's need for comfort...but animal research is always tough to hear about

Published on March 10, 2014 by Dawn Mazzagetti
5.0 out of 5 starsInformatively readable

A great read unlike some psychology texts that you slog endlessly to get through. To a beginning psychology student it is fascinating how revolutionary and difficult it was for... Read more

Published on December 18, 2013 by RWB
5.0 out of 5 starsGood read.

A well-written account of Harlow's life and work. Blum makes Harlow's science come alive. If you're skeptical about the work or you think Harlow is evil, this book is for you.

Published on November 10, 2013 by J
5.0 out of 5 starsGreat book

Wonderfully written. It's both entertaining and informative/historical, and makes me want to read more from her. Harry Harlow was an interesting guy. Read more

Published on October 2, 2013 by Brig
5.0 out of 5 starsA "JOURNEY" WITH THE PSYCHOLOGIST OF THE FAMED "CLOTH/WIRE MOTHER"...

Deborah Blum (born 1954) is an American journalist, whose book The Monkey Wars won a Pulitzer Prize; she has written other books such as The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the... Read more

Published on August 1, 2013 by Steven H Propp

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