Injurious law : nuclear exposure and the harms of redress / Catherine Trundle, La Trobe University.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Trundle, Catherine (Writer of Injurious law), Author.

Series:

Law in context.

Law in context

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nuclear weapons--Great Britain--Testing--History.

Nuclear weapons.

Personal injuries--Great Britain.

Personal injuries.

Compensation (Law)--Great Britain.

Compensation (Law).

Nuclear weapons testing victims--Australia.

Nuclear weapons testing victims.

Medical care--Law and legislation--Australia.

Medical care.

Nuclear weapons--Testing--Health aspects--Australia.

Radioactive substances--Australia--Safety measures.

Radioactive substances.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xv, 240 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2026.

Summary:

In the 1950s Britain joined the nuclear age, detonating 21 nuclear bomb experiments in Australia and the Pacific. In Injurious Law Catherine Trundle crosses countries and traverses decades to explore the lingering, metamorphizing impacts of radiation exposure and militarism. Through a compelling portrait of the lives of test veterans seeking compensation and healthcare, Trundle reveals how injury law, and the political and medical processes upon which it depends, generates a troubling paradox for claimants. While offering the possibilities for recognition and redress, the very process of making injury claims generates new and cascading harms. Recasting injury to include its social, moral and political aftereffects, Trundle exposes the quotidian and often banal practices that make the law injurious. Moving between archives, living rooms, laboratories, courts, parliament, and veteran social gatherings, Injurious Law offers a justice-centred lens for understanding legal contestations in the aftermath of radiation exposure and other invisible environmental harms.

Contents:

Reconstructing Risk

The Second Betrayal

Bad Numbers, Good Science

Into the Documentary Hinterland

Shifting Thresholds of Proof

The Legal Limits of Knowledge

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 15 Jun 2026).

ISBN:

1-009-72154-2

9781009721516

OCLC:

1585500578