New EventNational Writers Series Presents - Mary Roach

How does medicine keep our bodies going after our parts go kaput? Mary Roach has researched the many ways in her new book, Replaceable You, beginning with replacing missing noses with look-alike brass to the present-day knee replacements with metal and plastic.

Today we’re attempting to grow body parts from scratch using stem cells and 3D printers! How are we doing? Are we there yet? There’s lots to learn, and we promise this will be a funny, informative evening featuring Mary Roach, one of the country’s funniest science writers, whose new book is titled Replaceable You.

In Replaceable You, Roach celebrates how far we’ve come and explores the questions that doctors and patients still face today. When and how does a person decide they’d be better off with a prosthetic than an existing limb? Is there a sensitive way to harvest tissue and bones from the deceased? Which animals might be the best organ donors? Through interviews with patients, physicians, pathologists, engineers, and scientists, Roach immerses readers in the wondrous quest to build a new you.

The event begins at 7 p.m. and includes a Q&A and author signing. Tickets do not include a book. If you’d like to purchase a book, please do so above. Please note: signed books are only available at the live event.

Guest host Doug Stanton