Title: Accidents in history : injuries, fatalities and social relations /
Authors: Cooter, Roger,; Luckin, Bill; Cooter, Roger.; Luckin, Bill.
Publisher: Rodopi,
Year: 1997
Subjects: Social Problems history; History of Medicine; Accidents; Accidents history; Accidents Congresses.; Accidents Health aspects Congresses.
Contents: Accidents in history : an introduction / Roger Cooter and Bill Luckin -- Philosophy and the accident / Robert Campbell -- Accidents : the remnants of a modern classificatory system / Judith Green -- Working environments : an ecological approach to industrial health and safety / Arthur F. McEvoy -- Accidents in the eighteenth century / Roy Porter -- The moment of the accident : culture, militarism and modernity in late-Victorian Britain / Roger Cooter -- Civilian ambulances and lifesaving societies : the European experience, 1870-1914 / John F. Hutchinson -- What are occupational diseases? : Risk and risk management in industrial medicine in Germany, c. 1880-1920 / Dietrich Milles -- 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 -- War on the roads : traffic accidents and social tension in Britain, 1939-45 / Bill Luckin.