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CAREFUL
A User's Guide to Our Injury-Prone Minds
A safety expert reveals why few of us are as careful as we think we are, and what we can do about it.
As medical science offers to extend our lives by postponing sinister diseases, more people each year are figuring out ways to cut them short. Yes, after decades of steady improvement, the accident rate is climbing. Last year and in the U.S. alone, more than 38,000,000 people suffered an injury that required medical attention. More than 130,000 of them died, and almost 10,000 of them were kids.
Why are we so accident prone? In CAREFUL Casner hands us a “user's guide to our sometimes accident-prone minds and helps us understand why we do things like insist on the fat-free salad dressing but then text and drive”. This highly readable, authoritative and accessible narrative is full of surprising, must-know facts and stories, which have the potential to change our view of ourselves in the material world. We are less careful than ever, so we need the science and the story of how we can take better care, on small and grand scales.
As a NASA research psychologist, Casner has spent the past twenty years helping to cut the airline accident rate to a fraction of what it once was. He holds a multidisciplinary Ph.D. that spans psychology, computer science, medicine, and the history and philosophy of science. Casner well-published in scientific literature and has received much recent major media attention for his research. Casner is also the author of two textbooks, and he is passionate about writing science in engaging, interesting, and simple-to-understand ways. He is based in San Francisco.
Why are we so accident prone? In CAREFUL Casner hands us a “user's guide to our sometimes accident-prone minds and helps us understand why we do things like insist on the fat-free salad dressing but then text and drive”. This highly readable, authoritative and accessible narrative is full of surprising, must-know facts and stories, which have the potential to change our view of ourselves in the material world. We are less careful than ever, so we need the science and the story of how we can take better care, on small and grand scales.
As a NASA research psychologist, Casner has spent the past twenty years helping to cut the airline accident rate to a fraction of what it once was. He holds a multidisciplinary Ph.D. that spans psychology, computer science, medicine, and the history and philosophy of science. Casner well-published in scientific literature and has received much recent major media attention for his research. Casner is also the author of two textbooks, and he is passionate about writing science in engaging, interesting, and simple-to-understand ways. He is based in San Francisco.
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