Injury : : The Politics of Product Design and Safety Law in the United States / / Lochlann Jain.

Injury offers the first sustained anthropological analysis and critique of American injury law. The book approaches injury law as a symptom of a larger American injury culture, rather than as a tool of social justice or as a form of regulation. In doing so, it offers a new understanding of the probl...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
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Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2018]
©2006
Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource
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Other title:Frontmatter --
Contents --
Preface --
Introduction. Injury in U.S. Risk Culture --
Chapter 1. American Injury Culture --
Chapter 2. Sentience and Slavery --
Chapter 3. Keyboard Design --
Chapter 4. "Come Up to the 'Kool' Taste" --
Conclusion --
Notes --
Index
Summary:Injury offers the first sustained anthropological analysis and critique of American injury law. The book approaches injury law as a symptom of a larger American injury culture, rather than as a tool of social justice or as a form of regulation. In doing so, it offers a new understanding of the problematic role that law plays in constructing Americans' relations with the objects they consume. Through lively historical analyses of consumer products and workplace objects ranging from cigarettes to cheeseburgers and computer keyboards to airbags, Jain lucidly illustrates the real limits of the product safety laws that seek to redress consumer and worker injury. The book draws from a wide range of materials to demonstrate that American law sets out injury as an exceptional state, one that can be redressed through imperfect systems of monetary compensation. Injury demonstrates how laws are unable to accommodate the ways in which physical differences among citizens are imposed by the physical objects of culture that distribute risk differently among populations. The book moves between detailed accounts of individual legal cases; historical analyses of advertising, product design, regulation, and legal history; and a wide reading of cultural theory. Drawing on an extensive knowledge of law and social theory, this innovative book will be essential reading for anyone with an interest in design, consumption, and the politics of injury.
Format:Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
ISBN:9780691190242
9783110442502
DOI:10.1515/9780691190242?locatt=mode:legacy
Access:restricted access
Hierarchical level:Monograph
Statement of Responsibility: Lochlann Jain.