"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.
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