Bibliograph

Heartbreak, a personal and scientific journey, Florence Williams

Type

Label

Heartbreak, a personal and scientific journey, Florence Williams

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 280-296)

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Heartbreak

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

1252849510

Responsibility statement

Florence Williams

Sub title

a personal and scientific journey

Summary

"Florence Williams explores the fascinating, cutting-edge science of heartbreak while seeking creative ways to mend her own. When her twenty-five-year marriage unexpectedly falls apart, journalist Florence Williams expects the loss to hurt. What she doesn't expect is that she'll end up in the hospital, examining close-up the way our cells listen to loneliness. She travels to the frontiers of the science of "social pain" to learn why heartbreak hurts so much and why so much of the conventional wisdom about it is wrong. Searching for insight as well as personal strategies to game her way back to health, Williams tests her blood for genetic markers of grief, undergoes electrical shocks in a laboratory while looking at pictures of her ex, and ventures to the wilderness in search of awe as an antidote to loneliness. For readers of Wild and Lab Girl, Heartbreak is a remarkable merging of science and self-discovery that will change the way we think about loneliness, health, and what it means to fall in and out of love"--, Provided by publisher

Target audience

adult

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