Replaceable You: Adventures in Human Anatomy - Hardcover

Mary Roach investigates the science of human parts we can replace. Organs, tissues, prosthetics, and what counts as still being you.

Roach's gift is asking serious questions with dark humor. If we can transplant a heart, is it still your heart. If we grow you a new ear from your own cells, is it still your ear. The book ranges across organ donation, 3D-printed bones, prosthetic limbs, xenotransplantation, and the ethics of making us replaceable. She interviews surgeons, patients, and researchers living at the frontier of these questions.

Medical faculty assign this to students contemplating surgery or organ medicine. Bioethicists read it for case studies. It's also assigned in philosophy courses when discussing personal identity. Roach makes you confront how much of yourself is actually fungible.

DETAILS
- Hardcover
- Medical science, organ transplantation, prosthetics, bioethics