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

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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 probl...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Jain, Sarah S. Lochlann, 1967-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, 2006.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Produzentenhaftung
Personal injuries.
Lesions et blessures > Aspect social > États-Unis.
Produits commerciaux > Securite > Aspect social > États-Unis.
Dommage corporel > États-Unis.
Wounds and injuries > Social aspects > United States.
Product safety > Social aspects > United States.
Personal injuries > United States.
USA.
USA
United States.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : Injury in U.S. risk culture
  • ch. 1. American injury culture
  • ch. 2. Sentience and slavery : the struggle over the short-handled hoe
  • ch. 3. Keyboard design : the litigation wave of the 1990s
  • ch. 4. "Come up to the 'Kool' taste" : African American upward mobility and the semiotics of smoking menthols.

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