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

Serlin, David

 
9780226748849: Replaceable You: Engineering the Body in Postwar America
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ISBN 10 : 0226748847 ISBN 13 : 9780226748849
Editeur : University of Chicago Press, 2004

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.

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À propos de l'auteur

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.

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Éditeur
University of Chicago Press
Date d'édition
2004
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0226748847
ISBN 13 
9780226748849
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
232
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Personne responsable
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