Truth Machine: The Contentious History of DNA Fingerprinting - Couverture souple

Lynch, Michael; Cole, Simon A.; McNally, Ruth; Jordan, Kathleen

 
9780226498072: Truth Machine: The Contentious History of DNA Fingerprinting
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0226498077 ISBN 13 : 9780226498072
Editeur : University of Chicago Press, 2011

Synopsis

DNA profiling—commonly known as DNA fingerprinting—is often heralded as unassailable criminal evidence, a veritable “truth machine” that can overturn convictions based on eyewitness testimony, confessions, and other forms of forensic evidence. But DNA evidence is far from infallible. Truth Machine traces the controversial history of DNA fingerprinting by looking at court cases in the United States and United Kingdom beginning in the mid-1980s, when the practice was invented, and continuing until the present. Ultimately, Truth Machine presents compelling evidence of the obstacles and opportunities at the intersection of science, technology, sociology, and law.

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À propos des auteurs

Michael Lynch is professor in the Science & Technology Studies Department at Cornell University.

Michael Lynch is professor in the Science & Technology Studies Department at Cornell University. Simon Cole is the author of Suspect Identities: A History of Fingerprinting and Criminal Identification. Ruth McNally is a senior research fellow at the Centre for Economic and Social Aspects of Genomics at Lancaster University. Kathleen Jordan has a Ph.D. in sociology from Boston University and is currently a student at the Rhode Island School of Design.

Ruth McNally is a senior research fellow at the Centre for Economic and Social Aspects of Genomics at Lancaster University.

Kathleen Jordan has a Ph.D. in sociology from Boston University and is currently a student at the Rhode Island School of Design.

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Éditeur
University of Chicago Press
Date d'édition
2011
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0226498077
ISBN 13 
9780226498072
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
391
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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Autres éditions populaires du même titre

9780226498065: Truth Machine: The Contentious History of DNA Fingerprinting

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  0226498069 ISBN 13 :  9780226498065
Editeur : University of Chicago Press, 2008
Couverture rigide