S. Lochlann Jain

S. Lochlann Jain is an author, a professor in the Anthropology Department at Stanford University, where they teach medical and legal anthropology, and a professor of Social Medicine in the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at King's College London.

S. Lochlann Jain, anthropologist

Education

Jain completed a BA at McGill University, 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.

Books and research

Jain is the author of the widely reviewed[1][2][3][4][5][6][7] book Injury: The Politics of Product Design and Safety Law in the United States.[8] Jain's second book, Malignant: How Cancer Becomes Us[9] offers an analysis of cancer as an all-encompassing aspect of American culture. It was described in Nature Magazine as being "brilliant and disturbing"[10] and was widely reviewed in the academic and popular press. Professor Jain has described it as “exploding the category of cancer”, and all the stereotypes that have grown up around it. “The myth of the survivor”, for example, meant that patients “have to absorb not only the violence of the treatments and incredibly difficult medical issues but also a kind of ignorance about how they should be behaving”.[11] Malignant was awarded numerous prizes, including the Victor Turner Prize for Ethnographic Writing,[12] the Diana Forsythe Prize.[13]

Selected publications
  • Things That Art, University of Toronto Press, 2019.[14]
  • Malignant: How Cancer Becomes Us[15]
  • "The Mortality Effect: Counting the Dead in the Cancer Trial," Public Culture, 22:1 (Winter, 2010)[16]
  • "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)[17]
  • "Living in Prognosis: Toward an Elegiac Politics," Representations 98 (Spring, 2007[18]
  • Injury: The Politics of Product Design and Safety Law in the United States, Princeton University Press[19]
  • "Violent Submission," Cultural Critique 61 (Fall, 2005): 186–214.
  • "Dangerous Instrumentality: The Bystander as Subject in Automobility," Cultural Anthropology 19:1 (February, 2004)[20]
  • "'Come up to the Kool Taste': African American Upward Mobility and the Semiotics of Smoking Menthols," Public Culture 15:3 (Spring, 2003)[21]
  • "Urban Errands: The Means of Mobility," Journal of Consumer Culture 2:3 (November, 2002)[22]
  • "Mysterious Delicacies and Ambiguous Agents: Lennart Nilsson in National Geographic." Configurations 6:3 (Fall, 1998)[23]
  • "Inscription Fantasies and Interface Erotics: Keyboards, Law, Repetitive Strain Injuries." Hastings Journal of Women and Law 9:2 (Spring, 1998)[24]
  • "Prosthetic Pathology: Enabling and Disabling the Prosthesis Trope." Science, Technology, and Human Values 24:1 (Winter, 1998): 31–54.

Notes and references
  1. Aneesh, Aneesh. 2008. Review of Injury: The Politics of Product Design and Safety Law in the United States by Sarah S. Lochlann Jain. Political and Legal Anthropology Review 31(1): 154-157.
  2. Bryan, Bradley. 2008. Review of Injury: The Politics of Product Design and Safety Law in the United States by Sarah S. Lochlann Jain. Law, Culture and the Humanities 4: 453-456.
  3. Cole, Simon A. 2007. Review of Injury: The Politics of Product Design and Safety Law in the United States by Sarah S. Lochlann Jain. Law, Culture and the Humanities 48 (April): 450-451.
  4. Daniels, Stephen. 2008. Review of Injury: The Politics of Product Design and Safety Law in the United States by Sarah S. Lochlann Jain. Law and Society Review 42(2): 443-445.
  5. Gallagher, William T. 2008. Review of Injury: The Politics of Product Design and Safety Law in the United States by Sarah S. Lochlann Jain. Law and Politics Book Review 18(1): 4-6.
  6. McLaughlin, George E. 2007. Review of Injury: The Politics of Product Design and Safety Law in the United States by Sarah S. Lochlann Jain. TRIAL 43(3):68.
  7. Murphy, Michelle. 2008. Review of Injury: The Politics of Product Design and Safety Law in the United States by Sarah S. Lochlann Jain. American Anthropologist 110(3): 390-391.
  8. Jain, Sarah S. Lochlann (2006-03-26). Injury: The Politics of Product Design and Safety Law in the United States. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. ISBN 9780691119083.
  9. "Malignant". ucpress.edu.
  10. Kiser, Barbara (9 October 2013). "Books in brief". Nature. 502 (7470): 166. Bibcode:2013Natur.502..166K. doi:10.1038/502167a.
  11. Reisz, Matthew. "Lochlann Jain: anthropologist versus categories". Times Higher Education.
  12. "SHA Prize Winners – Society for Humanistic Anthropology". sha.americananthro.org.
  13. "GAD Awards". General Anthropology Division. 2013-08-16. Retrieved 2018-03-26.
  14. Things That Art, University of Toronto Press, 2019.
  15. Malignant: How Cancer Becomes Us. University of California Press. 25 October 2013. ISBN 978-0-520-95682-7.
  16. "The Mortality Effect: Counting the Dead in the Cancer Trial," Public Culture, 22:1 (Winter, 2010): 89-117.
  17. "Cancer Butch," Cultural Anthropology 22(4), (November, 2007): 501–538.
  18. "Living in Prognosis: Toward an Elegiac Politics," Representations 98 (Spring, 2007): 77–92.
  19. Injury: The Politics of Product Design and Safety Law in the United States. Princeton University Press. 2006. ISBN 978-0-691-11908-3.
  20. "Dangerous Instrumentality: The Bystander as Subject in Automobility," Cultural Anthropology 19:1 (February, 2004): 61–94.
  21. "'Come up to the Kool Taste': African American Upward Mobility and the Semiotics of Smoking Menthols," Public Culture 15:3 (Spring, 2003).
  22. "Urban Errands: The Means of Mobility," Journal of Consumer Culture 2:3 (November, 2002): 385–404.
  23. "Mysterious Delicacies and Ambiguous Agents: Lennart Nilsson in National Geographic." Configurations 6:3 (Fall, 1998): 373–394.
  24. "Inscription Fantasies and Interface Erotics: Keyboards, Law, Repetitive Strain Injuries." Hastings Journal of Women and Law 9:2 (Spring, 1998): 219–253.
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