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Accident prone : a history of technology, psychology, and misfits of the machine age
Title
Accident prone : a history of technology, psychology, and misfits of the machine age / John C. Burnham.
ISBN
9780226081175 (cloth : alk. paper)
0226081176 (cloth : alk. paper)
Published
Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2009.
Physical Description
viii, 328 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
March 03, 2010
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 235-317) and index.
Contents
Before accident proneness
German origins
British origins
Preparing the way: transport operators
The streams come together in the late 1920s and early 1930s
Consolidation and development, 1930s-World War II
How psychiatrists did not adopt and medicalize accident proneness
The mid-twentieth-century high point
Eclipse of the idea among experts
Bypassing accident proneness with engineering.
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