Mutilation

Police surgeon's drawing showing the mutilated body of Catherine Eddowes, Jack the Ripper's fourth canonical victim, as discovered on September 30, 1888.

Mutilation or maiming (from the Latin: mutilus) is severe damage to the body that has a subsequent utterly ruinous effect on an individual's quality of life.^[1]

In the modern era, the term has an overwhelmingly negative connotation,^[1]^[2] referring to alterations that render something inferior, dysfunctional, imperfect, or ugly.^[3]^[4]

^ ^a ^b Pitts, Victoria (2003). In the Flesh: The Cultural Politics of Body Modification. Palgrave Macmillan. p. 25. ISBN 9781403979438.
^ Inckle, Kay (2007). Writing on the Body? Thinking Through Gendered Embodiment and Marked Flesh. Cambridge Scholars Publishing. pp. Preface: X, 20. ISBN 9781443808729.
^ Staff (October 7, 2022). "Definition of Mutilate". Merriam-Webster. Retrieved October 27, 2022.
^ Staff (November 14, 2022). "Mutilation: Definition". Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved November 14, 2022.

[:0-1] Pitts, Victoria (2003). In the Flesh: The Cultural Politics of Body Modification. Palgrave Macmillan. p. 25. ISBN 9781403979438.

[2] Inckle, Kay (2007). Writing on the Body? Thinking Through Gendered Embodiment and Marked Flesh. Cambridge Scholars Publishing. pp. Preface: X, 20. ISBN 9781443808729.

[3] Staff (October 7, 2022). "Definition of Mutilate". Merriam-Webster. Retrieved October 27, 2022.

[4] Staff (November 14, 2022). "Mutilation: Definition". Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved November 14, 2022.

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