Truth Machine: The Contentious History of DNA Fingerprinting
Language: English
Published by University of Chicago Press, 2009
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- Title
- Truth Machine: The Contentious History of DNA Fingerprinting
- Author
- Jordan, Kathleen,McNally, Ruth,Cole, Simon A.,Lynch, Michael
- Publisher
- University of Chicago Press
- Publication year
- 2009
- Condition
- New
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0226498069
- ISBN 13
- 9780226498065
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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About the Author
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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