Replaceable You: Engineering the Body in Postwar America

Serlin, David

ISBN 10: 0226748847 / ISBN 13: 9780226748849

Published by University of Chicago Press, 2004

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Synopsis:

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.

About the Author: David Serlin is professor of communication and science studies at the University of California, San Diego. He is author or editor of numerous books, including Replaceable You: Engineering the Body in Postwar America,also published by the University of Chicago Press.

Bibliographic Details

Title: Replaceable You: Engineering the Body in ...
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication Date: 2004
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: very_good