#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!

[sidfeelzsick]

i feel so unbelievably replaceable, some how there is always someone better, funnier, prettier than me. and thats the basis of it doesn't matter if it's being someones best friend or someones girlfriend, it is a never ending cycle of being left behind like how the seasons change. 

[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