Accident prone : a history of technology, psychology, and misfits of the machine age
- نوع فایل : کتاب
- زبان : انگلیسی
- مؤلف : John C Burnham
- ناشر : Chicago : London : University of Chicago Press, ©2009.
- چاپ و سال / کشور: 2009
- شابک / ISBN : 9780226081175
Description
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.
Technology demands uniformity from human beings who encounter it. People encountering technology, however, differ from one another. This book presents a history of technology focused not on innovations but on their unintended consequences.
