The Monkey Wars Hardcover - 1994
by Deborah Blum
A gritty, in-the-trenches report on the battle over primate use in medical research, inspired by a series of articles by the author that won a Pulitzer Prize in 1992. Deborah Blum provides an unflinching look at the experiments that chimps and monkeys endure in research labs and gives equal accord to both researchers and animal rights activists.
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In The Monkey Wars, Deborah Blum offers a wide-ranging, informative look at animal activists, now numbering some twelve million, from the moderate Animal Welfare Institute to the highly radical Animal Liberation Front (a group destructive enough to be placed on the FBI's terrorist list). And she interviews a wide variety of researchers, many forced to conduct their work protected by barbed wire and alarm systems, men and women for whom death threats and hate mail are common. She takes us to Roger Fouts's research center in Ellensburg, Washington, where we meet five chimpanzees trained in human sign language - Loulis, Tatu, Mojha, Dar, and the most famous, Washoe - and watch the flicker of their fingers as they talk to each other, to themselves, and to stuffed animals (which Fouts sees as a clear sign of intelligence and even more - imagination). Blum introduces us to Alex Pacheco, a founder of People for Ethical Treatment of Animals, and to his bitter enemy, Peter Gerone, head of the federal primate center at Tulane and an outspoken critic of animal rights activists, who wants people to think about the trade-off at its most fundamental level - human life versus animal life. And we visit LEMSIP, a research facility in New York State that has no barbed wire, no alarms - and no protesters chanting outside - because its director, Jan Moor-Jankowski, listens to activists with respect. Along the way, Blum offers us insights into the many side-issues involved: scientists (like Roger Fouts) who lose funding because they support animal rights, the intense battle to win over school kids fought by both sides, the danger of transplanting animal organs into humans (it could possibly unleash adeadly, highly infectious disease), and the concerns over dwindling monkey populations.
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- Title The Monkey Wars
- Author Deborah Blum
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition
- Pages 328
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Oxford University Press, USA, New York
- Date 1994-10
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index
- ISBN 9780195094121 / 0195094123
- Weight 1.48 lbs (0.67 kg)
- Dimensions 9.52 x 6.38 x 1.2 in (24.18 x 16.21 x 3.05 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Animal rights, Primates as laboratory animals
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 94012439
- Dewey Decimal Code 179.4
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Citations
- Booklist, 10/01/1994, Page 189
- Kirkus Reviews, 09/01/1994, Page 1178
- Library Journal, 10/01/1994, Page 109
- LJ Best Sci-Tech Books, 03/01/1995, Page 37
- Publishers Weekly, 10/10/1994, Page 58
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