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caddysnack's review against another edition
5.0
An absolute Must Read for anyone interesting in biomedical research on primates. This provides a compelling history of the modern animal rights movement and primate research practices, and the war of attrition that occurred between these two divergent interests. Blum's writing is about as good as science writing gets (these pieces won Blum a Pulitzer), and her ability to provide a balanced view is commendable. Blum also gives solid focus to the individual personalities of major players, which is of utmost importance when learning about how hostilities escalated.
syuff's review against another edition
challenging
emotional
informative
slow-paced
Thirty years after publication, parts of this are outdated, but the book as a whole remains painfully relevant to the current primate research world, particularly in the US. I picked this up after a bought of frustration at how little time my lab husbandry class spent on medical ethics, and valued it for its refusal to pretend there are easy answers to any of this. It was a slow and difficult read, but one I'm incredibly grateful to Blum for.
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