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Accident Prone
John C. Burnham
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Description for Accident Prone
Hardcover. 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. Num Pages: 304 pages, 46 halftones, 1 line drawing. BIC Classification: PDR; TBX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 231 x 161 x 27. Weight in Grams: 612.
Technology demands uniformity from human beings who encounter it. People encountering technology, however, differ from one another. Thinkers in the early twentieth century, observing the awful consequences of interactions between humans and machines - death by automobiles or dismemberment by factory machinery, for example - developed the idea of accident proneness: the tendency of a particular person to have more accidents than most people. In tracing this concept from its birth to its disappearance at the end of the twentieth century, "Accident Prone" offers a unique history of technology focused not on innovations but on their unintended consequences. Here, John ... Read more
Technology demands uniformity from human beings who encounter it. People encountering technology, however, differ from one another. Thinkers in the early twentieth century, observing the awful consequences of interactions between humans and machines - death by automobiles or dismemberment by factory machinery, for example - developed the idea of accident proneness: the tendency of a particular person to have more accidents than most people. In tracing this concept from its birth to its disappearance at the end of the twentieth century, "Accident Prone" offers a unique history of technology focused not on innovations but on their unintended consequences. Here, John ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
Number of Pages
336
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226081175
SKU
V9780226081175
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99-15
About John C. Burnham
John C. Burnham is research professor of history at the Ohio State University and the author of many books, including, most recently, What Is Medical History?
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