Replaceable You: Engineering the Body in Postwar America - Couverture rigide

Serlin, David

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0226748839 ISBN 13 : 9780226748832

Editeur : University of Chicago Press, 2004

Synopsis

After World War II, the United States underwent a massive tural 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 reits 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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

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.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Chicago Press
• Date d'édition: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0226748839
• ISBN 13: 9780226748832
• Reliure: Relié
• Langue: anglais
• Nombre de pages: 232
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible