Buch, Englisch, Band 41, 274 Seiten, Format (B × H): 150 mm x 225 mm, Gewicht: 517 g
Reihe: Clio Medica
Injuries, Fatalities and Social Relations
Buch, Englisch, Band 41, 274 Seiten, Format (B × H): 150 mm x 225 mm, Gewicht: 517 g
Reihe: Clio Medica
ISBN: 978-90-420-0104-6
Verlag: Brill | Rodopi
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.
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1. Accidents in History: An Introduction
Roger COOTER and Bill LUCKIN
2. Philosophy and the Accident
Robert CAMPBELL
3. Accidents: The Remnants of a Modern Classificatory System
Judith GREEN
4. Working Environments: An Ecological Approach to Industrial Health and Safety
Arthur F. McEVOY
5. Accidents in the Eighteenth Century
Roy PORTER
6. The Moment of the Accident: Culture, Militarism and Modernity in Late-Victorian Britain
Roger COOTER
7. Civilian Ambulances and Lifesaving Societies: The European Experience, 1870-1914
John F. HUTCHINSON
8. What are Occupational Diseases? Risk and Risk Manage-ment in Industrial Medicine in Germany
Dietrich MILLES
9. Housewives as Home Safety Managers: The Changing Perception of the Home as a Place of Hazard and Risk, 1870-1940
Joel A. TARR and Mark TEBEAU
10. War on the Roads: Traffic Accidents and Social Tension in Britain, 1939-45
Bill LUCKIN
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