The Monkey Wars

TRAMA

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.

NOTE EDITORE

The use of primates in research is an ongoing controversy. We have all benefited from the medical discoveries, yet we have also learned more in recent years about the real intelligence of apes and monkeys. Activists have also uncovered cases of animal cruelty by researchers. The Monkey Wars assesses the often caustic debate over the use of primates in scientific research, and examines the personalities and issues behind the headlines. The author focuses on researchers forced to conduct their work behind barbed wire and alarm systems, animal rights activists ranging from the moderate AWI Institute to the highly radical ALF, and some of the remarkable chimpanzees involved. The research community and its activist critics are invariably portrayed as rival camps locked in a long, bitter, and seemingly intractable political battle. In reality there are people on both sides willing to accept and work within the complex middle. Deborah Blum gives these people a voice

SOMMARIO

1 - The Outsider2 - Of Street Thoughs and Target Practice3 - The Black Box4 - The Trap5 - The Face of Evil6 - The Peg-leg Pig7 - Hear No Evil8 - The Salt in the Soup9 - Not a Nice Death10 - Just Another Jerk Scientist11 - The Last Mangabeys12 - One Nation

AUTORE

Deborah Blum won the Pulitzer Prize in 1992 for a series of articles that have inspired this book.

ALTRE INFORMAZIONI

• Condizione: Nuovo
• ISBN: 9780195101096
• Dimensioni: 136 x 17.0 x 202 mm Ø 0 gr
• Formato: Brossura
• Illustration Notes: 6 pp halftones
• Pagine Arabe: 334