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

Publication: Trial
Publication Date: 01-MAR-07
Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Injury: The Politics of Product Design and Safety Law in the United States.(Book review)

Article Excerpt
Sarah S. Lochlann Jain Princeton University Press pup.princeton.edu 230 pp., $55 cloth, $19.95 paper

Injury is a cultural analysis of product use, the human injury that products sometimes cause, and the pursuit of compensation for that injury in the American legal system. Sarah Lochlann Jain, a professor of cultural anthropology at Stanford University, analyzes in detail the course of three products--the short-handled hoe, the common keyboard, and the menthol cigarette--and their associated injury claims through the legal system.

These claims primarily involved Hispanic farm laborers, women employed in clerical typing, and low-income African-Americans, respectively--at least...

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