#replaceable you

[uhhhhmanda]

A selection of footnotes from Mary Roach's "Replaceable You"

[teenytinychihuahua]

Begging everyone to read Mary Roach’s newest book Replaceable You not only because it’s a great book on the science of medical replacement parts but because she takes her Ms. Frizzlesc style of science education to new heights.

See Mary Roach:

- Try to spend a night in the Iron Lung

- Consider buying a 4000 dollar inflatable esophagus (with added polyps) for her guest room

- Accidentally almost violate human organ trafficking laws

- Beg and plead with a surgeon to put follicles from her head in her leg so she can have two beautiful long strands of head hair flowing down her leg… you know, for science

- and much more!

[troubleontriton]

listening to an audiobook about skin grafts and while it's nice for a pop science book it's insane about the Chinese. She just described a guy wearing black pants and a white button up as wearing "his uniform of panda colors". What? You mean normal fucking conference clothes for male academics??

[kamreadsandrecs]

You can’t dive into surgical history for long without bumping up against the casual racism of the medical elite.

-- from Replaceable You: Adventures in Human Anatomy, by Mary Beard

[kamreadsandrecs]

“So much of science is waiting,” [Lisa] McDonnell says. And when something finally works? “I cannot describe to you the satisfaction!”

-- from Replaceable You: Adventures in Human Anatomy, by Mary Beard

[kammartinez]

You can’t dive into surgical history for long without bumping up against the casual racism of the medical elite.

-- from Replaceable You: Adventures in Human Anatomy, by Mary Beard

[kamreadsandrecs]

Even when you nail the science, you have to grapple with the realities of business and profit.

-- from Replaceable You: Adventures in Human Anatomy, by Mary Beard