Pulitzer Prize-winner writer Deborah Blum examines the life of the late Harry Harlow, a psychologist whose research on the nature of parent-child affection and love--conducted on rhesus monkeys--was both revolutionary and disturbing. Harlow's judgement that mothers leaving their children to work outside the home was unnatural and dangerous, was not received well by feminists of the 1950s and 60s. The author, however, presents his work and its significance evenhandedly--readers may draw their own conclusions about his work on parent-child psychology, which continues to be meaningful. Copyright (C) Muze Inc. 2005. For personal use only. All rights reserved.