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
- Chapter One The Meaning of Injury
- Chapter Two Injury in the Unresponsive State
- Chapter Three “One Small Characteristic”
- Chapter Four Righteous Injuries
- Part II Constructing Injury and Imagining Remedies
- Part III Inequality and/as Injury
- Conclusion
- Index
- Cambridge Studies in Law and Society
- References
Chapter One - The Meaning of Injury
A Disability Perspective
from Part I - Injury and the Construction of Legal Subjects
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 February 2018
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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
- Chapter One The Meaning of Injury
- Chapter Two Injury in the Unresponsive State
- Chapter Three “One Small Characteristic”
- Chapter Four Righteous Injuries
- Part II Constructing Injury and Imagining Remedies
- Part III Inequality and/as Injury
- Conclusion
- Index
- Cambridge Studies in Law and Society
- References
Summary
Mor seeks to complicate the prevailing understanding of injury with the infusion of a disability perspective. She focuses on injury as an experience of disablement and suggests that the meaning of injury is shaped by one’s understanding of disability. If disability is understood as pain, suffering, tragedy, and misfortune—injury, too, is understood this way. However, once this negative view of disability is challenged the taken for granted understanding of injury as a misfortune is also challenged. Mor critiques the individualistic and medicalized nature of most legal responses to injury, particularly tort law. Instead, she looks at the societal, bodily, and sconomic consequences of injury and seek to reconstruct a concept of injury that is free of negative stigma and social bias against disabled people, but still acknowledges the pain and the moral wrong that an injury entails. A critical view of disability and injury therefore brings a new perspective to the study of the legal regimes that address the consequences of injury, from the law of torts, the law of personal injury, to related legal arrangements, including no-fault schemes and social security based mechanisms.
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- Injury and InjusticeThe Cultural Politics of Harm and Redress, pp. 27 - 49Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2018
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