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Chapter Seven - Injury Fields

from Part II - Constructing Injury and Imagining Remedies

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 February 2018

Anne Bloom
Affiliation:
University of California, Berkeley
David M. Engel
Affiliation:
State University of New York, Buffalo
Michael McCann
Affiliation:
University of Washington
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Summary

Jain begins by noting that injury has always been distributed unevenly. But now, well into the twenty-first century, we can’t even point to an untouched, uninjured body capable of being recouped through the promise of a compensatory legal award in a product liability case. Living now means living in a time of injury. While American law, policy, medicine, and experimental science still valorize cause and effect as a necessary condition of regulation, how might “injury” maintain conceptual or political meaning in a post nuclear-testing, post-Monsanto, post-pension world? How might we consider injury as a field rather than as an event constituted by a clear cause and effect? In this chapter, Jain offers a case study of IVF, focusing specifically on the use of hormones and other procedures that have been used off-label or grand-fathered in rather than been fully investigated and deemed safe. Jain disentangles the various aspects of the procedure to better understand how product liability could, in theory, capture the ways in which potential injuries circulate throughout the practice. Jain offers this as a way to understand how injury operates as a field, even a recursive field.
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Injury and Injustice
The Cultural Politics of Harm and Redress
, pp. 154 - 184
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2018

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