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Risk And Misfortune - The Social Construction Of Accidents (Hardcover)
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Risk And Misfortune - The Social Construction Of Accidents (Hardcover)
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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.; The book traces the emergence of the
"accident" as a marginal misfortune in modernist thought, and its
transformation into a "preventable" misfortune in the late 20th
century. It identifies accidents as being crucial to self-
conscious, rational modernity in the early 20th century: accidents
which "just happen" marked the limits of rational explanation and
only the irrational denied their existence. However, as an
examination of Contemporary Medical And Health Promotion Writing
Shows, The Accident should no longer happen. The rise of risk
assessment constructs the accident as an essentially preventable
misfortune.; This book should be of interest to students and
sociologists working in the areas of social theory, risk, health
and illness, and knowledge. It should also be of interest to those
concerned about cultural change in the late 20th century, and the
implications of risk assessment technologies.
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