Accident prone : a history of technology, psychology, and misfits of the machine age / John C. Burnham.
| Author/creator | Burnham, John C. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | Chicago : London : The University of Chicago Press, ©2009. |
| Description | viii, 328 pages ; 24 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Table of contents only |
| Subjects |
| 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. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (p. 235-317) and index. |
| LCCN | 2008040174 |
| ISBN | 9780226081175 (cloth : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0226081176 (cloth : alk. paper) |