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Collapsing buildings, unexpected meetings in the marketplace, monstrous births, encounters with pirates at sea—these and other unforeseen “accidents” at the turn of the seventeenth century in England acquired unprecedented significance in the early modern philosophical and cultural imagination. Drawing on intellectual history, cultural criticism, and rhetorical theory, this book chronicles the narrative transformation of “accident” from a philosophical dead end to an astonishing occasion for revelation and wonder in early modern religious life, dramatic practice, and experimental philosophy. Embracing the notion that accident was a concept with both learned and popular appeal, the book traces its evolution through Aristotelian, Scholastic, and Calvinist thought into a range of early modern texts. It suggests that for many English writers, accidental events raised fundamental questions about the nature of order in the world and the way that order should be apprehended. Alongside texts by such canonical figures as Shakespeare and Bacon, this study draws on several lesser-known authors of sensational news accounts about accidents that occurred around the turn of the seventeenth century. The result is a cultural anatomy of accidents as philosophical problem, theatrical conceit, spiritual landmark, and even a prototype for Baconian “experiment,” one that provides a fresh interpretation of the early modern engagement with contingency in intellectual and cultural terms.

Accidents --- Philosophy, English. --- English philosophy --- Philosophy, British --- Common accidents --- Injuries --- Diseases --- First aid in illness and injury --- Violent deaths --- Disasters --- Emergencies --- History. --- Causes and theories of causation

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In the twentieth-century, evidence-based injury prevention and control strategies have contributed to a substantial decline in the number of deaths associated with injury. However, researchers in the field of injury prevention have often gathered their study methods from other disciplines; it can be difficult for injury investigators to locate all of the research tools that can be applied to problems related to injury. Injury Control: A Guide to Research and Program Evaluation addresses the growing need for a comprehensive source of knowledge on all research designs available for injury control and research. Included in this accessible guidebook is information about choices in study design, details about study execution and discussion of specific tools such as injury severity scales, programme evaluations and systematic reviews. Epidemiologists, health service investigators, trauma surgeons and emergency medicine physicians will find this a useful source for understanding, reviewing and conducting research related to injuries.

Accidents --- Wounds and injuries --- Prevention --- Research. --- Human beings --- Injuries --- Trauma, Physical --- Wounds --- Surgical emergencies --- Traumatology --- Common accidents --- Diseases --- First aid in illness and injury --- Violent deaths --- Disasters --- Emergencies --- Causes and theories of causation --- Centers for Disease Control (U.S.) --- United States. --- Evaluation. --- CDC (Centers for Disease Control (U.S.)) --- Centros de Control de Enfermedades --- Center for Disease Control --- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.)