The truth machine [[electronic resource] ] : a social history of the lie detector / / Geoffrey C. Bunn
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Bunn G. C (Geoffrey C.)
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| Titolo: |
The truth machine [[electronic resource] ] : a social history of the lie detector / / Geoffrey C. Bunn
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| Pubblicazione: | Baltimore, : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (257 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 363.25/4 |
| Soggetto topico: | Lie detectors and detection - History |
| Lie detectors and detection - United States - History | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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; Z | |
| Titolo autorizzato: | The truth machine |
| ISBN: | 1-4214-0651-9 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910788378003321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology