Deborah Blum’s The Monkey Wars (Oxford, £9.99, ISBN 0 19 510109 X) is a
lucid account of problems with using primates in research. The style is that of
a good reporter’s: interviews woven into background material that allow the
arguments for and against to be heard and judged.
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