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

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• VerfasserIn: Jain, Lochlann,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2018]; ©2006
• Utgivningsår: 2018
• Språk: English
• Fysisk beskrivning: 1 online resource

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...

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