02966nam 2200589 a 450 991081403960332120240416174725.01-4214-0651-9(CKB)3170000000046498(EBL)3318596(OCoLC)823655162(SSID)ssj0000676192(PQKBManifestationID)11464425(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000676192(PQKBWorkID)10676773(PQKB)10977171(MiAaPQ)EBC3318596(MdBmJHUP)muse16052(Au-PeEL)EBL3318596(CaPaEBR)ebr10611254(EXLCZ)99317000000004649820111027d2012 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe truth machine a social history of the lie detector /Geoffrey C. Bunn1st ed.Baltimore Johns Hopkins University Press20121 online resource (257 p.)Johns Hopkins studies in the history of technologyDescription based upon print version of record.1-4214-0530-X Includes bibliographical references and index.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 SecurityChapter 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; ZHe 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.Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of TechnologyLie detectors and detectionHistoryLie detectors and detectionUnited StatesHistoryLie detectors and detectionHistory.Lie detectors and detectionHistory.363.25/4Bunn G. C(Geoffrey C.)1713709MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910814039603321The truth machine4106897UNINA