Replaceable you : engineering the body in postwar America /
David Serlin.
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, c2004.
- 244 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [205]-236) and index.
Can humans be rebuilt? -- The other arms race -- Reconstructing the Hiroshima Maidens -- Gladys Bentley and the Cadillac of hormones -- Christine Jorgensen and the Cold War closet -- The golden slipper show.
Biomedical engineering--United States. Regeneration (Biology)--United States. Prosthesis--United States. People with disabilities--Rehabilitation--United States. Biomedische techniek. Plastische chirurgie. Prothesen. Geslachtsverandering. Homoseksualiteit.