Blood of the Beloved

About the Book

Will it ever be possible to stop war, or is war an intractable problem? Combining the disciplines of history, psychiatry and neurology, the author probes this question in the tradition of C.P. Snow. Archeologists of the future reveal how purity is tied to violence, the existence of shame societies and guilt societies, bloody sacrificial rituals and why many women support war. Horrified by the death toll, the suicide bombers and the use of diabolic weapons of our times, they discuss how our society eventually abandoned war.

About the Author

Mary Coleman is a neurologist who has made contributions to the field of intellectual disabilities. But she has long wondered why groups of people, supposedly not intellectually impaired, regularly set up war situations of killing and being killed. This book is the final result of that contemplation.