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Accident prone : a history of technology, psychology, and misfits of the machine age
- Title
- Accident prone : a history of technology, psychology, and misfits of the machine age / John C. Burnham.
- Author
- Burnham, John C. (John Chynoweth), 1929-2017.
- Publication
- Chicago : London : The University of Chicago Press, c2009.
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFE 10-2885 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- viii, 328 p.; 24 cm.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- 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.
- Call Number
- JFE 10-2885
- ISBN
- 9780226081175 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0226081176 (cloth : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2008040174
- OCLC
- YBP 2008040174
- Author
- Burnham, John C. (John Chynoweth), 1929-2017.
- Title
- Accident prone : a history of technology, psychology, and misfits of the machine age / John C. Burnham.
- Imprint
- Chicago : London : The University of Chicago Press, c2009.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 235-317) and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 10-2885