Binding: Paperback
Description: Primatology Ethics and Trauma offers an analytical re - examination of the research conducted into the linguistic abilities of the Oklahoma chimpanzees uncovering the historical reality of the research. It has been 50 years since the first language experiments on chimpanzees. Robert Ingersoll was one of the researchers from 1975 to 1983. He is well known for being one of the main carers and best friend of the chimpanzee Nim Chimpsky but there were other chimpanzees in the University of Oklahoma's Institute for Primate Studies including Washoe Moja Kelly Booee and Onan who were taught sign language in the quest to discover whether language is learned or innate in humans. Antonina Anna Scarn's expertise in language acquisition and neuroscience offers a vehicle for critical evaluation of those studies. Ingersoll and Scarn investigate how this research failed to address the emotional needs of the animals. Research into trauma has made scientific advances since those studies. It is time to consider the research from a different perspective examining the neglect and cruelty that was inflicted on those animals in the name of psychological science. This book re - examines those cases addressing directly the suffering and traumatic experiences endured by the captive chimpanzees in particular the female chimpanzee Washoe and her resultant inability to be a competent mother. This book discusses the unethical nature of the studies in the context of recent research on trauma and offers a specific and direct psychological message proposing to finally close the door on the language side of these chimpanzee studies. This book is a novel and groundbreaking account. It will be of interest to lay readers and academics alike. Those working as research experimental and clinical psychologists will find this book of interest as will psychotherapists linguists anthropologists historians of science and primatologists as well as those involved in primate sanctuary and conservation.
Title: Primatology Ethics And Trauma The Oklahoma Chimpanzee Studies
Author(s): Scarna Antonina Anna
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Barcode: 9781032413488
Pages: 190 Pages, 3 Line Drawings, Black And White; 16 Halftones, Black And White; 19 Illustrations, Black
Publication Date: 2/23/2023
Category: Animal Behaviour