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The Truth Machine : A Social History of the Lie Detector.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology SeriesPublisher: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012Copyright date: ©2012Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (257 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781421406510
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: The Truth MachineDDC classification:
  • 363.25/4
LOC classification:
  • HV8078 .B86 2012
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Contents -- Introduction: Plotting the Hyperbola of Deception -- Chapter 1 "A thieves' quarter, a devil's den": The Birth of Criminal Man -- Chapter 2 "A vast plain under a flaming sky": The Emergence of Criminology -- Chapter 3 "Supposing that Truth is a woman-what then?": The Enigma of Female Criminality -- Chapter 4 "Fearful errors lurk in our nuptial couches": The Critique of Criminal Anthropology -- Chapter 5 "To Classify and Analyze Emotional Persons": The Mistake of the Machines -- Chapter 6 "Some of the darndest lies you ever heard": Who Invented the Lie Detector? -- Chapter 7 "A trick of burlesque employed . . . against dishonesty": The Quest for Euphoric Security -- Chapter 8 "A bally hoo side show at the fair": The Spectacular Power of Expertise -- Conclusion: The Hazards of the Will to Truth -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Essay on Sources -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- Z.
Summary: He examines how the machine emerged as a technology of truth, transporting readers back to the obscure origins of criminology itself, ultimately concluding that the lie detector owes as much to popular culture as it does to factual science.
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Cover -- Contents -- Introduction: Plotting the Hyperbola of Deception -- Chapter 1 "A thieves' quarter, a devil's den": The Birth of Criminal Man -- Chapter 2 "A vast plain under a flaming sky": The Emergence of Criminology -- Chapter 3 "Supposing that Truth is a woman-what then?": The Enigma of Female Criminality -- Chapter 4 "Fearful errors lurk in our nuptial couches": The Critique of Criminal Anthropology -- Chapter 5 "To Classify and Analyze Emotional Persons": The Mistake of the Machines -- Chapter 6 "Some of the darndest lies you ever heard": Who Invented the Lie Detector? -- Chapter 7 "A trick of burlesque employed . . . against dishonesty": The Quest for Euphoric Security -- Chapter 8 "A bally hoo side show at the fair": The Spectacular Power of Expertise -- Conclusion: The Hazards of the Will to Truth -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Essay on Sources -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- Z.

He examines how the machine emerged as a technology of truth, transporting readers back to the obscure origins of criminology itself, ultimately concluding that the lie detector owes as much to popular culture as it does to factual science.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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