TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bunn,Geoffrey C.
TI  - The Truth Machine: A Social History of the Lie Detector
T2  - Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology Series
SN  - 9781421406510
AV  - HV8078 .B86 2012 
U1  - 363.25/4 
PY  - 2012///
CY  - Baltimore
PB  - Johns Hopkins University Press
KW  - Lie detectors and detection-History
KW  - Lie detectors and detection-United States-History
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - 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
N2  - 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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ER  -