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Injury Product Design in the United States: The Politics of Product Design and Safety Law in the United States by Jain, Sarah S. Lochlann is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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__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,

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Author

Jain, Sarah S. Lochlann

Publisher

Princeton University Press

Published

2006

Language

EN

ISBN

9780691190242

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Law, Anthropology, Social Science