The Truth Machine: A Social History of the Lie Detector
Format: ebook
ISBN:
9781421406510 (1421406519)
Publish date: January 1st 2012
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Edition language: English
Series: Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology
Though advertised as "a social history of the lie detector," Geoffrey Bunn's book might be more accurately described as a description of its origins and the contemporary reaction to its invention. Beginning with the changing views of what criminals were in the 19th century, he describes the origins ...