232 Pages
by
Routledge
232 Pages
by
Routledge
232 Pages
by
Routledge
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There has been a growing sociological interest in both risk and its management, and with how we cope with the uncertainties of late 20th- century life. Understanding accidents is the key to understanding the risk society, for accidents are both the paradigmatic challenge for risk technologies to predict the apparently unpredictable and the ultimate indicator of the limits of those technologies.;... Read more
Characterizing accidents; Rationality and the emergence of accidents; Risk and the accident today; Preventing accidents; The social production of fatal accidents; The production of everyday accidents.
Biography
Judith Green is Lecturer in Sociology at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
