Deborah Blum

The Leonard Lopate Show | May 10, 2010
Harry Harlow’s surrogate-mother primate experiments in the 1950s were hailed as a major breakthrough by the psychiatric community and considered a brazen act of cruelty by animal rights activists. Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, Deborah Blum examines Harlow’s complicated life and scientific contributions, Love at Goon Park: Harry Harlow and the Science of Affection.

Music: At First Sight Soundtrack music by Mark Isham tracks 1, 2

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