The lie detectors
Subtitle: the history of an American obsession
By: Ken Alder.
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Lincoln
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780803224599
Subjects: Lie detectors and detection -- United States; Polygraph operators -- United States
Notes: Originally published: New York : Free Press, c2007.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: "Science Nabs Sorority sneak"; title: Policing the polis; title: A window on the soul; title: Monsterwork and son; title: The simple home; title: Poisonville; title: "Subjective and objective, sir"; title: The city of clinical material; title: Machine v. machine; title: Testing, testing; title: Traces; title: A science of the singular; title: Fidelity; title: A lie detector of curves and muscle; title: Atomic lies; title: Pinkos; title: Deus ex machina; title: Frankenstein lives!; title: Box populi.