Why Is Harry Hallow Unethical
Abstract
Harry Harlow is well known for his experiment on monkeys. He majored with these primates’ specimens to study learning, cognition and memory. His experiments involved the separation of the newly born monkeys from their mothers. He tried to investigate the significance of baby’s love. Since the young monkeys were brought up in diapers, he observed that as they continued to grow, they had a tendency appreciating their older diapers. Additionally, he found that the young monkeys felt safe while near their mothers. He did this by scaring and torturing these primates by hanging them upside down. However valid the Harry Harlow’s experiment were, I feel that these experiments were unethical.
Introduction
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Despite the fact that it has a good ultimate goal that was to teach human beings how to raise children, it has a very sadistic approach. In the despair chambers, monkeys were retained for as long as two years hung upside down and in all perspectives this is downright brutal, perverse and evil. Here Harlow shows the world how disregardful he is to the animals by his sick twisted experiments that were rather psychotic research activities to prove the obvious. This is not so far from vivisection.
Conclusion and Recommendation
In my view, to make the research more ethical, Harlow would have stuck to moderation. Isolating the baby monkey from the mother is okay but anything beyond that is pushing it especially the having them hang upside down, and the so-called rape racks is psychotic and mental.
References
Anderson, J. (1996). The Reality of Illusion. Illinois: Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press.
Brecher, E. M. (1969). The Sex Researchers. Boston: Little Brown.
Rumbaugh, D. M., & Washburn, D. A. (2003). Intelligence of Apes and other Rational Beings. New Haven: Yale University.
Vaughan Bell, M. C. (2011). 30-Second Psychology. New York: Metro
Harry Harlow is well known for his experiment on monkeys. He majored with these primates’ specimens to study learning, cognition and memory. His experiments involved the separation of the newly born monkeys from their mothers. He tried to investigate the significance of baby’s love. Since the young monkeys were brought up in diapers, he observed that as they continued to grow, they had a tendency appreciating their older diapers. Additionally, he found that the young monkeys felt safe while near their mothers. He did this by scaring and torturing these primates by hanging them upside down. However valid the Harry Harlow’s experiment were, I feel that these experiments were unethical.
Introduction
Anytime a person mentions Harry …show more content…
Despite the fact that it has a good ultimate goal that was to teach human beings how to raise children, it has a very sadistic approach. In the despair chambers, monkeys were retained for as long as two years hung upside down and in all perspectives this is downright brutal, perverse and evil. Here Harlow shows the world how disregardful he is to the animals by his sick twisted experiments that were rather psychotic research activities to prove the obvious. This is not so far from vivisection.
Conclusion and Recommendation
In my view, to make the research more ethical, Harlow would have stuck to moderation. Isolating the baby monkey from the mother is okay but anything beyond that is pushing it especially the having them hang upside down, and the so-called rape racks is psychotic and mental.
References
Anderson, J. (1996). The Reality of Illusion. Illinois: Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press.
Brecher, E. M. (1969). The Sex Researchers. Boston: Little Brown.
Rumbaugh, D. M., & Washburn, D. A. (2003). Intelligence of Apes and other Rational Beings. New Haven: Yale University.
Vaughan Bell, M. C. (2011). 30-Second Psychology. New York: Metro