• Media type: Book
  • Title: Accident prone : a history of technology, psychology, and misfits of the machine age
  • Contains: 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.
  • Contributor: Burnham, John C. [Author]
  • imprint: Chicago, Ill. [u.a.]: Univ. of Chicago Press, c 2009
  • Extent: VIII, 328 S.; Ill., graph. Darst., Kt; 24 cm
  • Language: English
  • ISBN: 0226081176; 9780226081175
  • RVK notation: ZG 8700 : Allgemeine Darstellungen mit umfassender Thematik
  • Keywords: Unfall > Störfall > Technik > Geschichte
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  • Footnote: Includes bibliographical references (p. 235-317) and index

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  • Status: Loanable
  • Shelf-mark: R2021 8 7140
  • Item ID: 34064200
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