TY  - JOUR
PY  - 1978//
TI  - The fault doctrine and injury control
JO  - Journal of trauma
A1  - Wigglesworth, E. C.
SP  - 789
EP  - 794
VL  - 18
IS  - 12
N2  - An analogy is drawn between the fourteenth-century conceptualization of infectious disease and the twentieth-century conceptualization of trauma. In both cases, causality is associated with faulty human behavior which acts as a handicap to progress. It is suggested that the practice of attributing accident causality to faulty behavior restricts the development of preventive activities in three ways: it implies that allocation of culpability is synonymous with identification of cause; it inhibits countermeasure implementation directly; and it concentrates on behavior instead of environmental hazards. A more useful and more appropriate approach is outlined and discussed.
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SN  - 0022-5282
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/
ID  - ref1
ER  -