Accidents In History
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Accidents In History
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Author :
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2020-01-29
Accidents In History written by and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-01-29 with Medical categories.
There is now an extensive literature on the social and environmental consequences of living in the risk society. Studies of trauma are also increasingly prominent. But scant attention has been paid to perceptions of risk and danger in the past — in particular, to the history of accidents and the meanings of the accidental. This collection of interdisciplinary essays addresses this lacuna providing a theoretically informed historical sociology of the accident and risk. It explores the social and cultural contexts in which ‘acts of God', calamities, catastrophes, disasters, injuries, casualties, and other category of ‘mishaps' were experienced, conceptualized and responded to. Drawing on the skills of British, European and North American scholars, Accidents in History combines philosophical, sociological and ecological overviews with in-depth historical case-studies. It spans the period from the eighteenth century to the present, probing the epistemological, social and political roots of the accidental. The authors differentiate between industrial and other forms of injury; trace the origins of the normalization of accidents; and analyze the interactions and gendered discrepancies between domestic and non-domestic mishaps. They also investigate the medicalization of sudden injury, and discuss the emergence of new socio-medical and humanitarian discourses around the organization of relief for victims.
Disasters Accidents And Crises In American History
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Author : Ballard C. Campbell
language : en
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
Release Date : 2008
Disasters Accidents And Crises In American History written by Ballard C. Campbell and has been published by Infobase Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with History categories.
Presents a chronologically-arranged reference to catastrophic events in American history, including natural disasters, economic depressions, riots, murders, and terrorist attacks.
Atomic Accidents
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Author : Jim Mahaffey
language : en
Publisher: Open Road Media
Release Date : 2014-02-04
Atomic Accidents written by Jim Mahaffey and has been published by Open Road Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-02-04 with Science categories.
A “delightfully astute” and “entertaining” history of the mishaps and meltdowns that have marked the path of scientific progress (Kirkus Reviews, starred review). Radiation: What could go wrong? In short, plenty. From Marie Curie carrying around a vial of radium salt because she liked the pretty blue glow to the large-scale disasters at Chernobyl and Fukushima, dating back to the late nineteenth century, nuclear science has had a rich history of innovative exploration and discovery, coupled with mistakes, accidents, and downright disasters. In this lively book, long-time advocate of continued nuclear research and nuclear energy James Mahaffey looks at each incident in turn and analyzes what happened and why, often discovering where scientists went wrong when analyzing past meltdowns. Every incident, while taking its toll, has led to new understanding of the mighty atom—and the fascinating frontier of science that still holds both incredible risk and great promise.
Red For Danger
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Author : L. T. C. Rolt
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1955
Red For Danger written by L. T. C. Rolt and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1955 with Railroad accidents categories.
The result of Rolt's careful investigation and study of verbatim reports and findings by H.M. Inspectorate of Railways. It covers major accidents from the 19th and 20th century, and reveals the evolution of safety devices and methods which came to make the British railway carriage one of the safest ways of transport in the world.
Train Wrecks
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Author : Robert Carroll Reed
language : en
Publisher: Random House Value Publishing
Release Date : 1968
Train Wrecks written by Robert Carroll Reed and has been published by Random House Value Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1968 with Antiques & Collectibles categories.
Engravings, photographs, and text recreate spectacular railroad collisions, derailments, boiler explosions, and other disasters primarily during the nineteenth century
Stopping Street Accidents
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Author : Barron Collier
language : en
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Release Date : 2017-12-23
Stopping Street Accidents written by Barron Collier and has been published by Forgotten Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-12-23 with Business & Economics categories.
Excerpt from Stopping Street Accidents: A History of New York City's Bureau of Public Safety Seventeen picked lieutenants of police and twenty three patrolmen familiar with safety work, were as signed to the new Bureau by Commissioner Enright. Over them as Executive Secretary to the Director of the Bureau, was placed Mr. Marcus Dow, then pres ident of the National Safety Council. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Disasters Of The Deep
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Author : Edwyn Gray
language : en
Publisher: Pen and Sword
Release Date : 2006-10-01
Disasters Of The Deep written by Edwyn Gray and has been published by Pen and Sword this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-10-01 with History categories.
The comprehensive reference to peacetime submarine disasters, updated with now-declassified Cold War events, the Kursk tragedy, and more. This is the fully revised and updated edition of the first comprehensive account of every peacetime submarine disaster from 1774 to the twenty-first century tragedy of the Kursk. By examining many of the sinkings in considerable detail, analyzing what went wrong, and describing the attempts made to rescue the crew and the vessel, Edwyn Gray traces the development of the submarine from the earliest experimental submersibles of the late eighteenth century to the nuclear-powered monsters of today. The appendices include the most comprehensive and accurate list of submarine disasters ever printed, in the compilation of which the author has had the cooperation of the US, French, Italian, Danish, and Japanese navies, as well as the RN Submarine Museum and the German U-Boat Archive. “An invaluable reference book for naval historians and also a most fascinating read for the layman.” —Journal of Military and Veterans’ Health Published in a previous edition as Few Survived
The First Modern Risk
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Author : Julia Moses
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2018-06-21
The First Modern Risk written by Julia Moses and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-06-21 with History categories.
Examines Europe's first significant national policies on social welfare in the late nineteenth century, which had major implications for state-society relations.
Accident Prone
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Author : John Burnham
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2010-04-15
Accident Prone written by John Burnham and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-04-15 with Technology & Engineering categories.
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 C. Burnham shows that as the machine era progressed, the physical and economic impact of accidents coevolved with the rise of the insurance industry and trends in twentieth-century psychology. After World War I, psychologists determined that some people are more accident prone than others. This designation signaled a shift in social strategy toward minimizing accidents by diverting particular people away from dangerous environments. By the 1960s and 1970s, however, the idea of accident proneness gradually declined, and engineers developed new technologies to protect all people, thereby introducing a hidden, but radical, egalitarianism. Lying at the intersection of the history of technology, the history of medicine and psychology, and environmental history, Accident Prone is an ambitious intellectual analysis of the birth, growth, and decline of an idea that will interest anyone who wishes to understand how Western societies have grappled with the human costs of modern life.
Few Survived
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Author : Edwyn Gray
language : en
Publisher: Pen and Sword
Release Date : 1996-04-01
Few Survived written by Edwyn Gray and has been published by Pen and Sword this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996-04-01 with History categories.
A revised edition of an account of peacetime submarine disasters from 1774 to the present day, previously published in 1991. Examines the development of the submarine from experimental stages in the late 18th century to the present day, and provides details of all disasters ever reported.