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Serlin, David Harley.

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Built for living: Imagining the American body through medical science, 1945-1965.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Built for living: Imagining the American body through medical science, 1945-1965./
Author:	Serlin, David Harley.
Description:	353 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 60-05, Section: A, page: 1634.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International60-05A.
Subject:	American Studies. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=9930252
ISBN:	0599302305

Built for living: Imagining the American body through medical science, 1945-1965.
Serlin, David Harley.

Built for living: Imagining the American body through medical science, 1945-1965. - 353 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 60-05, Section: A, page: 1634.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--New York University, 1999.

Since World War II, surgeons, prostheticists, endocrinologists, and pharmacologists have imagined an American body not through evolution, selective breeding or physical correction but through technological transformation. <italic>Built for Living</italic> is a set of five interconnected—though perfectly self-contained—historical case studies that reveal the ideological mechanisms through which postwar American society culturally constructed and technologically constituted the human body. In the affluent, post-scarcity consumer culture of the Cold War period, American women and men invested themselves in medical technologies to engage with the powerful narratives of self-improvement, upward mobility, social conformity, and sexual normativity through scientific intervention.

ISBN: 0599302305Subjects--Topical Terms:

1017604
American Studies.

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520 $a Chapter One introduces the concept of the “imagined body” in postwar medicine and American culture by examining visual representations of bodies featured in televised surgery, live-action documentaries, and early forms of telemedicine from the late 1940s through the end of the 1950s. Chapter Two focuses on innovations within the biomedical specialty of prosthetics in the mid-1950s. Designers such as Henry Dreyfus, and mathematicians such as Norbert Wiener, helped to develop new electro-mechanical prosthetic limbs that depended largely upon cultural expectations for how to rehabilitate and normalize the traumatized male body. Chapter Three probes the case history of the “Hiroshima Maidens,” the 25 young Japanese women whose faces and bodies were reconstructed by American plastic surgeons in 1955. Private archival sources and public accounts of the Maidens illuminate the cultural implications of performing surgery on non-Western bodies in the era of reinventing the American self. Chapter Four analyzes how endocrinology imagined the body through hormone therapy. Using new synthesized steroid hormones (testosterone, estrogen, and cortisone), consumers like singer Gladys Bentley imputed powerful cultural values to hormones in order to regulate anti-social pathologies putatively linked to hormonal imbalances. Finally, Chapter Five examines the surgical and chemical transformation of Christine Jorgensen, the first internationally-recognized male-to-female transgender personality. Although Jorgensen was ultimately reviled by a homophobic public culture, Jorgensen was in fact heralded initially as the ultimate “medical miracle” whose physical conversion in 1952 made manifest postwar medical science's reinterpretation of the American body.
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