Perrow, Charles <br/><br/>
Normal accidents :  living with high-risk technologies 
Charles Perrow 
 - Princeton, NJ :  Princeton University Press,  c1999. 
 - x, 451 p. :  ill. ;  24 cm. 
 - Princeton paperbacks .
<br/><br/> Reprint. Originally published: New York : Basic Books, 1984. 
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<br/><br/>Abnormal Blessings vii Introduction 3 1. Normal Accident at Three Mile Island 15 2. Nuclear Power as a High-Risk System: Why We Have Not Had More TMIs --  But Will Soon 32 3. Complexity, Coupling, and Catastrophe 62 4. Petrochemical Plants 101 5. Aircraft and Airways 123 6. Marine Accidents 170 7. Earthbound Systems: Dams, Quakes, Mines, and Lakes 232 8. Exotics: Space, Weapons, and DNA 256 9. Living with High-Risk Systems 304 Afterword 353 Postscript: The Y2K Problem 388 List of Acronyms 413 Notes 415 Bibliography 426 Index 441. 
<br/><br/> Analyzes the societal impact of high-risk technologies and argues that conventional engineering approaches to safety fail due to the complex nature of technological systems and their inevitable failure. 
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<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780691004129 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>99032990 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Industrial accidents<br/>Technology--Risk assessment<br/>Accidents<br/>Industrial accidents<br/>Technology<br/>Accidents
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>363.1