Book contents
- Injury and Injustice
- Cambridge Studies in Law and Society
- Injury and Injustice
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I Injury and the Construction of Legal Subjects
- Part II Constructing Injury and Imagining Remedies
- Chapter Five Chairs, Stairs, and Automobiles
- Chapter Six Incommensurability and Power in Constructing the Meaning of Injury at the Medical Malpractice Disputes
- Chapter Seven Injury Fields
- Chapter Eight Good Injuries
- Chapter Nine Privacy and the Right to One's Image
- Part III Inequality and/as Injury
- Conclusion
- Index
- Cambridge Studies in Law and Society
- References
Chapter Eight - Good Injuries
from Part II - Constructing Injury and Imagining Remedies
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 February 2018
Book contents
- Injury and Injustice
- Cambridge Studies in Law and Society
- Injury and Injustice
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I Injury and the Construction of Legal Subjects
- Part II Constructing Injury and Imagining Remedies
- Chapter Five Chairs, Stairs, and Automobiles
- Chapter Six Incommensurability and Power in Constructing the Meaning of Injury at the Medical Malpractice Disputes
- Chapter Seven Injury Fields
- Chapter Eight Good Injuries
- Chapter Nine Privacy and the Right to One's Image
- Part III Inequality and/as Injury
- Conclusion
- Index
- Cambridge Studies in Law and Society
- References
Summary
This chapter examines changing perceptions of “injury” in the context of tattooing and plastic surgery practices. Bloom and Galanter argue that the construction of a particular result as "injury" is very much an interpretive event. Consent and/or a desire for the result of the ostensibly injurious practice play a role in this interpretive process, but so do many other factors, including: 1) the role of professional gatekeeping; 2) the extent to which the practice is viewed as a form of identity construction/presentation; and 3) the perceived curative aspects of the practice. Bloom and Galanter also note that these implications appear to bear increased significance for women, who are electing to undergo tattooing and plastic surgery in growing numbers, seemingly as a means of self-assertion and an assertion of control over their identities.
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- Injury and InjusticeThe Cultural Politics of Harm and Redress, pp. 185 - 201Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2018
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