具体描述
Are scientific expert witnesses partisans, or spokesmen for objective science? This ambiguity has troubled the relations between scientists and the legal system for more than 200 years. With deep learning and wry humor, Tal Golan tells stories of courtroom drama and confusion and media jeering on both sides of the Atlantic, until the start of the 21st century, as the courts still search for ways that will allow them to distinguish between good and bad science.
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目录信息
1. ''Where there's muck there's brass'': The rise of the modern expert witness
2. The common liar, the damned liar, and the scientific expert: The growing problem of expert testimony
3. Who shall decide where experts disagree? The nineteenth-century debates
4. Blood will out: Distinguishing humans from animals and scientists from Charlatans
5. The authority of shadows: The law and X-rays
6. Science unwanted: The law and psychology
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