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Accident prone : a history of technology, psychology, and misfits of the machine age
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- Creator
- John C. Burnham
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- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2009
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- viii, 328 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 0226081176, 9780226081199, 9780226081175, 0226081192
- OCLC
- ocn255140993, ocn615636756
- 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