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, ...
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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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Very good in very good dust jacket. Ex-library. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. With dust jacket. 391 p. Contains: Illustrations, black & white, Line drawings, black & white, Figures. Audience: General/trade. LCCN 2008001902 Type of material Book Personal name Lynch, Michael, 1948-Main title Truth machine: the contentious history of DNA fingerprinting / Michael Lynch...[et al.]. Published/Created Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008. Description xxii, 391 p. : ill.; 24 cm. ISBN 9780226498065 (cloth: alk. paper) 0226498069 (cloth: alk. paper) LC classification RA1057.55. L96 2008 Subjects DNA fingerprinting--History. Notes Includes bibliographical references (p. [349]-378) and index. Dewey class no. 614/.1 National bib no. GBA890562 National bib agency no. 014673849 Other system no. (OCoLC)ocn191207065 (OCoLC)191207065
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