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

by SarahS.LochlannJain (Author)

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  Paperback
  2006

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  Offers an anthropological analysis and critique of American injury law. This book approaches injury law as a symptom of a larger American injury culture. It offers an understanding of the problematic role that law plays in Americans' relations with the objects they consume. It shows that American law sets out injury as an exceptional state.