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9780226748849

Replaceable You : Engineering the Body in Postwar America

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  • ISBN13:

    9780226748849

  • ISBN10:

    0226748847

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2004-06-15
  • Publisher: Univ of Chicago Pr

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Summary

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.

Author Biography

David Serlin is an assistant professor of history at Bard Early College and research historian at the National Institute of Health. He is coeditor of Artificial Parts, Practical Lives: Modern Histories of Prosthetics and Policing Public Sex: Queer Politics and the Future of AIDS Activism.

Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION Can Humans Be Rebuilt? 1(20)
ONE The Other Arms Race 21(36)
TWO Reconstructing the Hiroshima Maidens 57(54)
THREE Gladys Bentley and the Cadillac of Hormones 111(48)
FOUR Christine Jorgensen and the Cold War Closet 159(32)
EPILOGUE The Golden Slipper Show 191(10)
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 201(4)
NOTES 205(32)
INDEX 237

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