Replaceable You: Engineering the Body in Postwar America

Replaceable You: Engineering the Body in Postwar America - Paperback

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Replaceable You: Engineering the Body in Postwar America - Paperback

Replaceable You: Engineering the Body in Postwar America - Paperback

by David Serlin
$72.00
$72.00

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by David Serlin (Author)

Front Jacket

After World War II, the United States underwent a massive cultural transformation that was vividly realized in the development and widespread use of new medical technologies. Plastic surgery, wonder drugs, artificial organs, and prosthetics inspired Americans to believe in a new age of modern medical miracles. The nationalistic pride that flourished in postwar society, meanwhile, encouraged many Americans to put tremendous faith in the power of medicine to rehabilitate and otherwise transform the lives and bodies of the disabled and those considered abnormal. Replaceable You revisits this heady era in American history to consider how these medical technologies and procedures were used to advance the politics of conformity during the 1950s.

Author Biography

David Serlin is associate professor of communication at the University of California, San Diego. He is coeditor of Artificial Parts, Practical Lives: Modern Histories of Prosthetics and Policing Public Sex: Queer Politics and the Future of AIDS Activism.

Number of Pages: 232
Dimensions: 0.73 x 7.98 x 5.34 IN
Illustrated: Yes
Publication Date: June 15, 2004
ISBN9780226748849
Author David Serlin
PublisherUniversity of Chicago Press
GenreHistory and Relationships
FormatPaperback
PublishedJune 2004
LanguageENG- English
Pages232
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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