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Global forensic cultures : making fact and justice in the modern era /
"Contemporary forensic science has achieved unprecedented visibility as a compelling example of applied expertise. But the common public viewâe"that we are living in an era of forensic deliverance, one exemplified by DNA typingâe"has masked the reality: that forensic science has alw...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Baltimore, Maryland :
Johns Hopkins University Press,
2019.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Intro; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Forensic Facts, the Guts of Rights; Part I. Evidence and Epistemology; Chapter 1. The Value(s) of Methods: Method Selection in German Forensic Toxicology in the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century; Chapter 2. The Imperial Serologist and Punitive Self-Harm: Bloodstains and Legal Pluralism in British India; Chapter 3. Handwriting Analysis as a Dynamic Artisanal Science: The Hardless Detective Dynasty and the Forensic Cultures of the British Raj; Chapter 4. Spatters and Lies: Contrasting Forensic Cultures in the Trials of Sam Sheppard, 1954-66
- Part II. Practices of Power and PolicingChapter 5. Death and Empire: Medicolegal Investigations and Practice across the British Empire; Chapter 6. Fingerprints and the Politics of Scientific Policing in Early Twentieth-Century Spain; Chapter 7. From Bedouin Trackers to Doberman Pinschers: The Rise of Dog Tracking as Forensic Evidence in Palestine; Chapter 8. "DNA Evidence Cannot Lie": Forensic Science, Truth Regimes, and Civic Epistemology in Thai History; Part III. Training and Transmitting
- Chapter 9. Cleaning Out the Mortuary and the Medicolegal Text: Ambriose Tardieu's Modernizing EnterpriseChapter 10. The Strange Science: Tracking and Detection in the Late Nineteenth-Century Punjab; Chapter 11. Forensic Knowledge and Forensic Networks in Britain's Empire: The Case of Sydney Smith; Afterword: A Tale of Two Cities? Locating the History of Forensic Science and Medicine in Contemporary Forensic Reform Discourse; List of Contributors; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W