S. Lochlann Jain is an author and artist, in addition to being a Professor in the

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Department at

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, where they teach

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and

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, and a Visiting Professor of Social Medicine in the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at

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Education

Jain completed a BA at

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, an MPhil at the

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, a PhD in the History of Consciousness Program at the

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, and a Post-Doc at the

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Books and research

Jain is the author of the book ''Injury,'' a political analysis of the history of injury law in the United States. Jain's second book, '' Malignant: How Cancer Becomes Us'' offers an analysis of cancer as an all-encompassing aspect of American culture. It was described in

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as being "brilliant and disturbing" and was widely reviewed. Jain developed the concept of "living in prognosis" to name and better understand the role of statistics in constituting the paradoxes of living with and in cancer. ''Malignant'' was awarded numerous prizes, including the Victor Turner Prize for Ethnographic Writing, The Staley Prize, The June Roth Prize for medical writing, the Edelstein Prize, the Diana Forsythe Prize. Jain's third book, ''Things that Art: A Graphic Menagerie of Enchanting Curiosity,'' deconstructs the work done by categories through a series of drawings and essays.

Books

*''Things That Art'', University of Toronto Press, 2019.
Things That Art
', University of Toronto Press, 2019. *'' Malignant: How Cancer Becomes Us''. University of California Press, 2013 * ''Injury: The Politics of Product Design and Safety Law in the United States'', Princeton University Press. 2006

References

External links

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Stanford University Faculty Page for S. Lochlann Jain

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