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Heartbreak

By Florence Williams

Heartbreak Science

Heartbreak

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Description
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.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
304
Release Date:
2023-02-14
Publication Date:
2023-02-14
Publisher:
W. W. Norton & Company
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1324050454
ISBN13:
9781324050452
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
265 g
Height:
143 cm
Width:
211 cm
Thickness:
22 cm
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