Waiting to Happen: The Sociology of Unexpected Injuries

by Lorne Tepperman and Nicole Meredith

Public health researchers, insurance companies, and statisticians have long understood the curious patterns underlying unexpected injuries. Sociologists have more recently been drawn to this field of study, using data from a range of sources to explore the social causes and consequences of "accidents" - or, more accurately, unexpected injuries. We have developed multiple strategies for depicting such events as unavoidable, inevitable, acceptable,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199012067
• ISBN13: 9780199012060
• Release Date: December 2015
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 8.9"