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Accident prone : a history of technology, psychology, and misfits of the machine age /

This work is an intellectual analysis of the birth, growth, and deline of an idea that will interest anyone who wishes to understand how Western societies have grappled with the human costs of modern life.

Основен автор: Burnham, John C. 1929-
Формат: Електронна книга
Език: English
Публикувано: Chicago : London : University of Chicago Press, 2009.
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Подобни документи: Print version:: Accident prone.
Съдържание:
  • 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.