S. Lochlann Jain
Encyclopedia
S. Lochlann Jain is an Associate Professor in the Anthropology
Department at Stanford University
, where she teaches medical and legal anthropology. Her research is devoted to understanding how the inevitable injuries of mass productions and consumption are distributed and justified in the United States. Dr. Jain is the author of the widely reviewed book Injury: The Politics of Product Design and Safety Law in the United States.
, an MPhil at the University of Glasgow
, a PhD in the History of Consciousness Program at the University of California Santa Cruz, and a Post-Doc at the University of British Columbia
. She has received the Cultural Horizons Prize from the Society for Cultural Anthropology, a section of the American Anthropological Association
, and is a National Endowment for the Humanities
grant recipient. Dr. Jain has held Fellowships at the National Humanities Center
and the Stanford Humanities Center.
Anthropology
Anthropology is the study of humanity. It has origins in the humanities, the natural sciences, and the social sciences. The term "anthropology" is from the Greek anthrōpos , "man", understood to mean mankind or humanity, and -logia , "discourse" or "study", and was first used in 1501 by German...
Department at Stanford University
Stanford University
The Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University or Stanford, is a private research university on an campus located near Palo Alto, California. It is situated in the northwestern Santa Clara Valley on the San Francisco Peninsula, approximately northwest of San...
, where she teaches medical and legal anthropology. Her research is devoted to understanding how the inevitable injuries of mass productions and consumption are distributed and justified in the United States. Dr. Jain is the author of the widely reviewed book Injury: The Politics of Product Design and Safety Law in the United States.
Career
Dr. Jain completed a BA at McGill UniversityMcGill University
Mohammed Fathy is a public research university located in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The university bears the name of James McGill, a prominent Montreal merchant from Glasgow, Scotland, whose bequest formed the beginning of the university...
, an MPhil at the University of Glasgow
University of Glasgow
The University of Glasgow is the fourth-oldest university in the English-speaking world and one of Scotland's four ancient universities. Located in Glasgow, the university was founded in 1451 and is presently one of seventeen British higher education institutions ranked amongst the top 100 of the...
, a PhD in the History of Consciousness Program at the University of California Santa Cruz, and a Post-Doc at the University of British Columbia
University of British Columbia
The University of British Columbia is a public research university. UBC’s two main campuses are situated in Vancouver and in Kelowna in the Okanagan Valley...
. She has received the Cultural Horizons Prize from the Society for Cultural Anthropology, a section of the American Anthropological Association
American Anthropological Association
The American Anthropological Association is a professional organization of scholars and practitioners in the field of anthropology. With 11,000 members, the Arlington, Virginia based association includes archaeologists, cultural anthropologists, biological anthropologists, linguistic...
, and is a National Endowment for the Humanities
National Endowment for the Humanities
The National Endowment for the Humanities is an independent federal agency of the United States established by the National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities Act of 1965 dedicated to supporting research, education, preservation, and public programs in the humanities. The NEH is located at...
grant recipient. Dr. Jain has held Fellowships at the National Humanities Center
National Humanities Center
The National Humanities Center is an independent institute for advanced study in the humanities. It is the only major independent institute for advanced study in all fields of the humanities in the United States. The NHC operates as a privately incorporated nonprofit and is not part of any...
and the Stanford Humanities Center.
Publications
- “The Mortality Effect: Counting the Dead in the Cancer Trial,” Public Culture, 22:1 (Winter, 2010): 89-117.
- “Be Prepared,” in Jonathan Metzl and Anna Kirkland (eds.) Against Health, NYU Press, 2010.
- “Countering Time: The Medical Apology,” in Austin Sarat (ed.) The Subject of Responsibility, Fordham University Press, 2010.
- “Cancer Butch,” Cultural Anthropology 22(4), (November, 2007): 501-538.
- “Living in Prognosis: Toward and Elegiac Politics,” Representations 98 (Spring, 2007): 77-92.
- Injury: The Politics of Product Design and Safety Law in the United States. Princeton University Press, 2006.
- “Violent Submission,” Cultural Critique 61 (Fall, 2005): 186-214.
- “Dangerous Instrumentality: The Bystander as Subject in Automobility,” Cultural Anthropology 19:1 (February, 2004): 61-94.
- “‘Come up to the Kool Taste’: African American Upward Mobility and the Semiotics of Smoking Menthols,” Public Culture 15:3 (Spring, 2003).
- “Urban Errands: The Means of Mobility,” Journal of Consumer Culture 2:3 (November, 2002): 385-404.
- “Mysterious Delicacies and Ambiguous Agents: Lennart Nilsson in National Geographic.” Configurations 6:3 (Fall, 1998): 373-394.
- “Inscription Fantasies and Interface Erotics: Keyboards, Law, Repetitive Strain Injuries.” Hastings Journal of Women and Law 9:2 (Spring, 1998): 219-253.
- “Prosthetic Pathology: Enabling and Disabling the Prosthesis Trope.” Science, Technology, and Human Values 24:1 (Winter, 1998): 31-54.