Replaceable You: Engineering the Body in Postwar America
"David Serlin gives nuance to the 1940s and 50s in this book about modern medicine and social change and perception." --Review of Disability Studies: An International Journal vol. 1, no. 4 (2005)"David Serlin's remarkable book illuminates the culture of postwar America by investigating intersections of race, class, gender, medicine, and technology." --Bulletin of the History of Medicine, vol. 79 (Winter 2005)"In Replaceable You...Serlin relocates the American fascination with using medicine to realign the body with identity." --Journal of the American Medical Association, October 27, 2004"In _Replaceable You_...Serlin relocates the American fascination with using medicine to realign the body with identity." --_Journal of the American Medical Association_, October 27, 2004"Serlin shows the power of cultural studies at its best, informed by a careful understanding of technology and its reception." --Technology and Culture,vol. 46, October 2005"Serlin's book is a stimulating reflection on the cultural implications of modifications to the human body...after World War Two." --American Historical Review, vol. 111, no. 2 (April 2006)