Injury: The Politics of Product Design and Safety Law in the United States. By Sarah S. Lochlann Jain. Princeton, NJ: Princeton Univ. Press, 2006. Pp. xii + 214. $55.00 cloth; $19.95 paper.

Injury offers a challenging and provocative discussion of issues that are the subject of intense debate: tort law and product-caused injuries. Jain, a cultural anthropologist, challenges the reader to look at these familiar issues in a different way, "to step outside of the questions of frivolous cases and junk science" (p. 4). Instead, she encourages us to think more deeply about: the centrality and necessity of injury in the American economy; how injury and inequality are intertwined; and the promise, ...

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