"Child Psychologist" Lee Salk Hand Signed 8X10 B&W Photo

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Up for auction "Child Psychologist" Lee Salk Hand Signed 8X10 B&W Photo.
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Lee
Salk
(December 22, 1926[1] - May 2, 1992) was a child
psychologist and author who is credited with discovering the calming effect the
sound of a heartbeat has on infants.During
the last third of his life, Dr. Salk made a great deal of public appearances on
various television shows and lecture halls.
He used these venues to dispense advice on how to rear
children, especially infants. Salk was the younger son of Russian Jewish
immigrants, Dora (Press) and Daniel Salk. He was born and reared in New York. Jonas Salk,
inventor of the polio vaccine, was his older brother. Salk attended the University of
Michigan. Salk's published work investigated the effect of
retirement on mortality, the effect of the mother's heartbeat on the newborn,
and the relationship between adverse maternal and perinatal conditions and
later self-destructive behavior. He was the author of eight books. Salk was
married twice, first to Kerstin and then Mary Jane. He had two children from
his first marriage, a son Eric and daughter Pia. Salk was briefly married to
Catherine H. Waters of South Carolina. There marriage took place in 1982, in
New York. Salk developed cancer and died in hospital in Manhattan at age 65 on
May 2, 1992. Salk was a professor at Cornell University Medical Center.