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Replaceable You

Replaceable You

Engineering the Body in Postwar America

by David Serlin
Hardback
Publication Date: 15/06/2004

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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.
ISBN:
9780226748832
9780226748832
Category:
Medical equipment & techniques
Format:
Hardback
Publication Date:
15-06-2004
Publisher:
The University of Chicago Press
Country of origin:
United States
Edition:
2nd Edition
Pages:
232
Dimensions (mm):
212x142x24mm
Weight:
0.43kg
David Serlin

David Serlin is a writer, editor, and historian who teaches at the University of California, San Diego. He is the author or editor of numerous books and articles for adults. Baby Monkey, Private Eye is his first book for children. He divides his time between Brooklyn, New York and San Diego, California.

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