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.
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Accident prone : a history of technology, psychology, and misfits of the machine age by John C. Burnham. ISBN 9780226081175. Published by University of Chicago Press in 2009. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.
