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

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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Jain, Lochlann,
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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Table of Contents:
  • 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

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