| Popis: |
Common terms, mostly derogatory, abound in regarding adipose tissue, particularly when attached to women. Fat. Spare tyre. Muffin tops. Fatty. That fat has a practical presence in human bodies, designed to prevent starvation, is overlooked. Sometimes this is to the detriment of women, particularly young women (and now some young men), falling victim to deliberate starvation, suffering anorexia and bulimia, denying themselves sustenance in the hopes of gaining the all-so-desired slim body of photoshopped images. As Jocelynne Scutt delineates, surgical and non-surgical measures prosper and flourish alongside. In turn, the proliferation of these procedures spawns legal practices devoted to law suits in negligence, sometimes contract law, designed to pursue women’s concerns arising from processes gone wrong or simply unsatisfying. Liposuction, employed all over the body, whether to transfer fat or remove it altogether, figures highly both as a cosmetic procedure and a productive field for lawyers. As with Botox and fillers, liposuction and fat being an arena where training can be less than safe, law suits relate to removal of adipose from around waists, midriffs, and abdomens. Risks and dangers of laser burns, UV burns, fat embolism, scarring, sloppy skin left behind and requiring yet more surgical intervention. Gastric banding, lap-banding, gastric bypass and other tightening stomach measures exist to cut down eating and cheat the body’s digestive tract. Yet today, ‘cosmetic gynaecology’ is zooming into public consciousness, just as it zooms into the world of lawyers, law suits and courts of law. Along with the mesh implant scandal, Jocelynne Scutt recounts how the outer and innermost sensitive and intimate parts of women’s bodies are now subject to the beautician’s razor and wax, the surgeon’s scalpel and stitching, and may meet judicial intrusion and scrutiny. Today, as she describes, no part of a woman’s body is safe. |
