Serlin, David Harley.

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.

0226748839 (cloth : alk. paper) 9780226748832 (cloth : alk. paper) 0226748847 (pbk. : alk. paper) 9780226748849 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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Biomedical engineering--United States.
Regeneration (Biology)--United States.
Prosthesis--United States.
People with disabilities--Rehabilitation--United States.
Biomedische techniek.
Plastische chirurgie.
Prothesen.
Geslachtsverandering.
Homoseksualiteit.

R 856 .S457 2004