Deborah Blum (born October 19, 1954) a Pulitzer Prize-winning American journalist, the author of The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York, and professor of science journalism at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
As a science writer for the Sacramento Bee, Blum (rhymes with gum) wrote a series of articles examining the professional, ethical, and emotional conflicts between scientists who use animals in their research and animal rights activists who oppose that research. Titled "The Monkey Wars", the series won the 1992 Pulitzer Prize for Beat Reporting.
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