David Serlin

David Serlin is an Associate Professor of Communication and Science Studies, and affiliated faculty in Critical Gender Studies, at the University of California at San Diego. His research interests include cultural studies of science and medicine, gender studies and queer theory, disability studies, and architecture and urban studies. He is the author of Replaceable You: Engineering the Body in Postwar America (University of Chicago Press, 2004), which was awarded the 2005 Alan Bray Book Prize by the Modern Language Association; the coeditor of two anthologies, Policing Public Sex: Queer Politics and the Future of AIDS Activism (South End Press, 1996) and Artificial Parts, Practical Lives: Modern Histories of Prosthetics (NYU Press, 2002); and the editor of Imagining Illness: Public Health and Visual Culture (University of Minnesota Press, 2011). He is a research consultant in twentieth-century history of medicine at the National Institutes of Health, and is a member of the editorial collective for the Radical History Review.