Replaceable You
Subtitle: Engineering the Body in Postwar America
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Published: June 15, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 232
ISBN-13: 9780226748832
Subjects: Medical equipment & techniques; History; History - General History; History: American; USA; Americas (North Central South West Indies); Health - General; History / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies); Biomedical engineering; People with disabilities; Prosthesis; Regeneration (Biology); United States
First sentence: IN WASHINGTON, DC, a handsome male amputee, a veteran of World War II, holds a book of matches with his new prosthetic hand and lights a cigarette with the other while a photographer captures the image for posterity.