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Accident prone : a history of technology, psychology, and misfits of the machine age / John C. Burnham.
- Burnham, John C. (John Chynoweth), 1929-
- Date
- 2009
- Books
About this work
Publication/Creation
Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2009.
Physical description
viii, 328 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Contributors
Bibliographic information
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.
Languages
- English
Where to find it
Location Status History of MedicineVT /BUROpen shelves
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Identifiers
ISBN
- 9780226081175
- 0226081176