Replaceable you will change forever the way we think about the cultural and social fallout of world war ii david serlin places disability and visuality together in a brilliant series of meditations on the bodies of the victims of various wars cultural sexual and military and focuses on the way those bodies were reimagined through medical and technical interventions. David serlins 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 youserlin relocates the american fascination with using medicine to realign the body with identity. 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. Replaceable you engineering the body in postwar america serlin david 9780226748849 books amazonca. David serlin replaceable you engineering the body in postwar america chicago university of chicago press 2004 pp 244 2500