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By Deborah Blum. 336 pp., illustrated. Cambridge, Mass., Perseus, 2002. $26. ISBN 0-7382-0278-9.

Students who read about Harry Harlow in textbooks of psychology or animal behavior are usually presented with two impressions: appealing pictures of young rhesus monkeys clinging tightly to cloth- or wire-covered mother surrogates equipped with small nursing bottles for feeding, and the almost obligatory, sanctimonious comments about the alleged cruelty of Harlow's monkey experiments (Figure). Deborah Blum's biography of Harry Harlow describes the complex and fascinating realities behind these two simplistic impressions. Her book recounts the remarkable career of Harlow at the University of Wisconsin and the largely unappreciated effect of his monkey studies on our views of . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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