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Speaking from the laboratory jimena canales s lochlann jain
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 understood in the United States.
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- Speaking from the laboratory jimena canales s lochlann jain
- Dr s lochlann jain at the ubc centre for cross faculty inquiry february 10 2010
- Education
- Books and research
- Publications
- References

Dr s lochlann jain at the ubc centre for cross faculty inquiry february 10 2010
Education
Dr. 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. 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.
Books and research

Dr. Jain is the author of the widely reviewed book Injury: The Politics of Product Design and Safety Law in the United States. Jain also published Malignant: How Cancer Becomes Us in 2013. Malignant offers an analysis of cancer as an all-encompassing aspect of American culture. It was praised in Nature Magazine as being "brilliant and disturbing." "Malignant" was awarded the Victor Turner Prize for Ethnographic Writing , the Diana Forsythe Prize. and the J.I. Staley Prize, whose jury wrote: "Malignant offers a strikingly original authorial voice as well as a vivid portrait of the paradoxes and uncertainties of life in industrial modernity."
Publications
