Replaceable You: Engineering the Body in Postwar America
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Published by University of Chicago Press, 2004
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- Title
- Replaceable You: Engineering the Body in Postwar America
- Author
- Serlin, David
- Publisher
- University of Chicago Press
- Publication year
- 2004
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- new
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- Paperback
- Language
- English
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- 0226748847
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- 9780226748849
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.
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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.
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