Accident prone : a history of technology, psychology, and misfits of the machine age / John C. Burnham.

Author/creator Burnham, John C.
Format Book
Publication InfoChicago : London : The University of Chicago Press, ©2009.
Descriptionviii, 328 pages ; 24 cm
Supplemental ContentTable 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 noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 235-317) and index.
LCCN 2008040174
ISBN9780226081175 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN0226081176 (cloth : alk. paper)