Chapters in this book

1. Front matter i
2. Dedications iv
3. Contents vii
4. List of figures ix
5. List of contributors x
6. Foreword xvi
7. Acknowledgements xxiv
8. Introduction 1
9. Part 1: Psychoanalysis, patternings and the medical imagination
10. 1 A knot of bodies 11
11. 2 Making Manhattan 25
12. 3 Medical men 42
13. Part 2: Practitioners, place and contemporary identities
14. 4 From naïve artists to integrated professionals 63
15. 5 Mis-reading moko 80
16. 6 Transforming tattoos of the girl with the dragon tattoo 95
17. Part 3: Urban textualities, humans and other animals
18. 7 The killing floor and crime narratives 113
19. 8 The tattoo wakes 130
20. Part 4: Children’s literature: Dark marks, scars and secret societies
21. 9 Dark marks, curse scars and corporal punishment 145
22. 10 ‘Since the schism’ 164
23. Part 5: Film: Adaptation, memory and constructions of self
24. 11 The ink of the real 183
25. 12 The Bounty mutiny and its adaptations 200
26. 13 Hunting for the branded body in Supernatural 221
27. 14 Generic branding 239
28. 15 Tattoos, deviance and consumer culture in North American television 256
29. Index 271