Accident prone: a history of technology, psychology, and misfits of the machine age
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1. Verfasser: Burnham, John C., (John Chynoweth) (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Chicago London 2009
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Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-317) and index
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
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
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (viii, 328 pages)
ISBN:0226081192
9780226081199

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