Simon A Cole
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3652140 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Simon A Cole |
| NOMBRES | Simon A |
| APELLIDO | Cole |
| FIRMA | COLE S A |
| AFILIACIONES | University of California, Irvine |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 19 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 22 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 19 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1995 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2018 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Medicine, the Penal System and Sexual Crimes in England, 1919–1960s
Reviewed by: Medicine, the Penal System and Sexual Crimes in England, 1919–1960s: Diagnosing Deviance by Janet Weston Simon A. Cole Janet Weston. Medicine, the Penal System and Sexual Crimes in England, 1919–1960s: Diagnosing Deviance. London: Bloomsbury, 2018. x + 205 pp. £85.00 (978–1–350–02109–9). Over the course of the fifty-year period following the First World War, the attitude of English doctors toward sexual crime evolved from indifferenc…
Quantified
Reviewed by: Quantified: Biosensing Technologies in Everyday Life ed. by Dawn Nafus Simon A. Cole (bio) Quantified: Biosensing Technologies in Everyday Life. Edited by Dawn Nafus. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2016. Pp. 280. $27. Quantified: Biosensing Technologies in Everyday Life is challenging to review because the volume itself already contains cogent efforts to draw together themes from, and respond to the provocations of, its various essays. It…
Genetics and Forensics
A surfeit of science
Over the past decade, popular media has promulgated claims that the television program CSI and its spinoffs and imitators have had a pernicious effect on the public understanding of forensic science, the so-called “CSI effect.” This paper analyzes those media claims by documenting the ways in which the media claims that CSI “distorts” an imagined “reality.” It shows that the media appropriated the analytic stance usually adopted by science advoca…
The Violence of Care
70 Reviews documentation. I found one oblique refer- ence to hospitalization (p. 101), but it is not clear from the context whether this refers to a hypothetical or an actual case. However, Atkinson’s last chapter is the strongest in the book. Based on research he conducted with his colleague Michael Kehler, he explores boys’ P.E. classes as an arena of somatic dominance and humiliation, but also of resistance and resilience. While the other five…
De-neutralizing Identification
In constituting itself as a full-fledged topic of scholarly enquiry, the history of identification has often found it necessary to distinguish its subject matter from the far better studied topic of identity. The earliest historians of identification noted that the notion of identity was much discussed by a wide variety of disciplines (e.g. sociology, philosophy, psychology, history), but found little on the history of identification1 until, that…
The Face of Biometrics
The Face of Biometrics Simon A. Cole (bio) Lisa S. Nelson, America Identified Kelly A. Gates, Our Biometric Future Biometric-identification technologies—technologies that use bodily attributes to identify individuals for surveillance, social control, commerce, and other purposes—are becoming increasingly pervasive in everyday life in post-9/11 society. Not surprisingly, these developments have sparked increased scholarly interest, and a number of…
A Cautionary Tale About Cautionary Tales About Intervention
Expressions of discomfort or concern with interventions by radical social science movements, such as Critical Management Studies (CMS) or Science and Technology Studies (STS) in public controversies have rested heavily on two concerns: first, that radical social science is not useful to institutions like business and, second, that, in order to make themselves useful such interventions must compromise the radicalism of the social science program. …
Suspect Identities
Truth Machine
The Lie Detectors
Reviewed by: The Lie Detectors: The History of an American Obsession Simon A. Cole (bio) The Lie Detectors: The History of an American Obsession. By Ken Alder . New York: Simon & Schuster, 2007 Pp. xiv+334. $27. What could be more enticing to historians of machines than a history of machines whose product is truth itself? In The Lie Detectors, Ken Alder brings his considerable wit and talent for rigorously researched yet readable history to the s…
Injury
Reviewed by: Injury: The Politics of Product Design and Safety Law in the United States Simon A. Cole (bio) Injury: The Politics of Product Design and Safety Law in the United States. By Sarah S. Lochlann Jain . Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2006. Pp. xiii+214. $55/ $19.95. Sarah Lochlann Jain's book puts the "jury" back into injury. Noting that the etymology of the word is explicitly legal, Injury cross-fertilizes several differen…
Twins, Twain, Galton, and Gilman
It is well-known that Mark Twain introduced the idea of finger-print identification to much of the world in his novella Pudd'nhead Wilson . While Twain's prescience has often been noted, this essay explores the less-remarked-upon connections between fingerprint identification and the idea of racial typing that forms a central theme of the book. The essay argues that, in addition to foreseeing the use of fingerprint evidence in criminal trials, Tw…
Witnessing Creation
Is Fingerprint Identification Valid? Rhetorics of Reliability in Fingerprint Proponents’ Discourse
Beginning around 1999, a growing number of scholars have claimed that validation studies for forensic fingerprint identification do not exist. This article revisits that claim by reviewing literature produced by proponents of fingerprint identification in response to that charge. It shows that fingerprint proponents employ rhetorical tricks in which they claim to address the validity question, but then subtly shift the question to ones that are e…
Genetics and Society
Imprint of the Raj
Reviewed by: Imprint of the Raj: How Fingerprinting was Born in Colonial India Simon A. Cole (bio) Imprint of the Raj: How Fingerprinting was Born in Colonial India. By Chandak Sengoopta. London: Macmillan, 2003. Pp. xv+234. £15.99. It is widely believed that fingerprinting was invented at Scotland Yard. Far from being a mere antiquarian matter, this belief has even assumed some legal significance in a recent criminal case (United States v. Llera…
Suspect Identities
Do Androids Pulverize Tiger Bones to Use as Aphrodisiacs
On Uncompahgre and Red Cloud Peaks in the San Juan mountains of Colorado, the Uncompahgre fritillary butterfly is becoming extinct. The Uncompahgre fritillary never should have been there in the first place. The climate was perfectly habitable 10,000 years ago during the Ice Age, but the butterfly failed to retreat with the glaciers and ended up trapped in the mountains, thousands of miles from its proper arctic climate. Facing several consecutiv…
Suspect Identities
Is Fingerprint Identification Valid? Rhetorics of Reliability in Fingerprint Proponents’ Discourse
Beginning around 1999, a growing number of scholars have claimed that validation studies for forensic fingerprint identification do not exist. This article revisits that claim by reviewing literature produced by proponents of fingerprint identification in response to that charge. It shows that fingerprint proponents employ rhetorical tricks in which they claim to address the validity question, but then subtly shift the question to ones that are e…
Witnessing Creation
Twins, Twain, Galton, and Gilman
It is well-known that Mark Twain introduced the idea of finger-print identification to much of the world in his novella Pudd'nhead Wilson . While Twain's prescience has often been noted, this essay explores the less-remarked-upon connections between fingerprint identification and the idea of racial typing that forms a central theme of the book. The essay argues that, in addition to foreseeing the use of fingerprint evidence in criminal trials, Tw…
Do Androids Pulverize Tiger Bones to Use as Aphrodisiacs
On Uncompahgre and Red Cloud Peaks in the San Juan mountains of Colorado, the Uncompahgre fritillary butterfly is becoming extinct. The Uncompahgre fritillary never should have been there in the first place. The climate was perfectly habitable 10,000 years ago during the Ice Age, but the butterfly failed to retreat with the glaciers and ended up trapped in the mountains, thousands of miles from its proper arctic climate. Facing several consecutiv…
Do Androids Pulverize Tiger Bones to Use as Aphrodisiacs
On Uncompahgre and Red Cloud Peaks in the San Juan mountains of Colorado, the Uncompahgre fritillary butterfly is becoming extinct. The Uncompahgre fritillary never should have been there in the first place. The climate was perfectly habitable 10,000 years ago during the Ice Age, but the butterfly failed to retreat with the glaciers and ended up trapped in the mountains, thousands of miles from its proper arctic climate. Facing several consecutiv…
Suspect Identities
Imprint of the Raj
Reviewed by: Imprint of the Raj: How Fingerprinting was Born in Colonial India Simon A. Cole (bio) Imprint of the Raj: How Fingerprinting was Born in Colonial India. By Chandak Sengoopta. London: Macmillan, 2003. Pp. xv+234. £15.99. It is widely believed that fingerprinting was invented at Scotland Yard. Far from being a mere antiquarian matter, this belief has even assumed some legal significance in a recent criminal case (United States v. Llera…
Witnessing Creation
Is Fingerprint Identification Valid? Rhetorics of Reliability in Fingerprint Proponents’ Discourse
Beginning around 1999, a growing number of scholars have claimed that validation studies for forensic fingerprint identification do not exist. This article revisits that claim by reviewing literature produced by proponents of fingerprint identification in response to that charge. It shows that fingerprint proponents employ rhetorical tricks in which they claim to address the validity question, but then subtly shift the question to ones that are e…
Genetics and Society
Injury
Reviewed by: Injury: The Politics of Product Design and Safety Law in the United States Simon A. Cole (bio) Injury: The Politics of Product Design and Safety Law in the United States. By Sarah S. Lochlann Jain . Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2006. Pp. xiii+214. $55/ $19.95. Sarah Lochlann Jain's book puts the "jury" back into injury. Noting that the etymology of the word is explicitly legal, Injury cross-fertilizes several differen…
Twins, Twain, Galton, and Gilman
It is well-known that Mark Twain introduced the idea of finger-print identification to much of the world in his novella Pudd'nhead Wilson . While Twain's prescience has often been noted, this essay explores the less-remarked-upon connections between fingerprint identification and the idea of racial typing that forms a central theme of the book. The essay argues that, in addition to foreseeing the use of fingerprint evidence in criminal trials, Tw…
Truth Machine
The Lie Detectors
Reviewed by: The Lie Detectors: The History of an American Obsession Simon A. Cole (bio) The Lie Detectors: The History of an American Obsession. By Ken Alder . New York: Simon & Schuster, 2007 Pp. xiv+334. $27. What could be more enticing to historians of machines than a history of machines whose product is truth itself? In The Lie Detectors, Ken Alder brings his considerable wit and talent for rigorously researched yet readable history to the s…
A Cautionary Tale About Cautionary Tales About Intervention
Expressions of discomfort or concern with interventions by radical social science movements, such as Critical Management Studies (CMS) or Science and Technology Studies (STS) in public controversies have rested heavily on two concerns: first, that radical social science is not useful to institutions like business and, second, that, in order to make themselves useful such interventions must compromise the radicalism of the social science program. …
Suspect Identities
The Face of Biometrics
The Face of Biometrics Simon A. Cole (bio) Lisa S. Nelson, America Identified Kelly A. Gates, Our Biometric Future Biometric-identification technologies—technologies that use bodily attributes to identify individuals for surveillance, social control, commerce, and other purposes—are becoming increasingly pervasive in everyday life in post-9/11 society. Not surprisingly, these developments have sparked increased scholarly interest, and a number of…
De-neutralizing Identification
In constituting itself as a full-fledged topic of scholarly enquiry, the history of identification has often found it necessary to distinguish its subject matter from the far better studied topic of identity. The earliest historians of identification noted that the notion of identity was much discussed by a wide variety of disciplines (e.g. sociology, philosophy, psychology, history), but found little on the history of identification1 until, that…
Genetics and Forensics
A surfeit of science
Over the past decade, popular media has promulgated claims that the television program CSI and its spinoffs and imitators have had a pernicious effect on the public understanding of forensic science, the so-called “CSI effect.” This paper analyzes those media claims by documenting the ways in which the media claims that CSI “distorts” an imagined “reality.” It shows that the media appropriated the analytic stance usually adopted by science advoca…
The Violence of Care
70 Reviews documentation. I found one oblique refer- ence to hospitalization (p. 101), but it is not clear from the context whether this refers to a hypothetical or an actual case. However, Atkinson’s last chapter is the strongest in the book. Based on research he conducted with his colleague Michael Kehler, he explores boys’ P.E. classes as an arena of somatic dominance and humiliation, but also of resistance and resilience. While the other five…
Quantified
Reviewed by: Quantified: Biosensing Technologies in Everyday Life ed. by Dawn Nafus Simon A. Cole (bio) Quantified: Biosensing Technologies in Everyday Life. Edited by Dawn Nafus. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2016. Pp. 280. $27. Quantified: Biosensing Technologies in Everyday Life is challenging to review because the volume itself already contains cogent efforts to draw together themes from, and respond to the provocations of, its various essays. It…
Medicine, the Penal System and Sexual Crimes in England, 1919–1960s
Reviewed by: Medicine, the Penal System and Sexual Crimes in England, 1919–1960s: Diagnosing Deviance by Janet Weston Simon A. Cole Janet Weston. Medicine, the Penal System and Sexual Crimes in England, 1919–1960s: Diagnosing Deviance. London: Bloomsbury, 2018. x + 205 pp. £85.00 (978–1–350–02109–9). Over the course of the fifty-year period following the First World War, the attitude of English doctors toward sexual crime evolved from indifferenc…
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