S. Lochlann Jain is an author and artist, in addition to being a professor in the Anthropology Department at Stanford University, where they teach medical and legal anthropology, and a visiting professor of social medicine in the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at King's College London.
Jain is the author of the book Injury,[1][2][3][4][5][6][7] a political analysis of the history of injury law in the United States.
It was described in Nature Magazine as being "brilliant and disturbing"[10] 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.
[13] 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.