Books on and Relating to Universal Design and the Built Environment
This is a small selection of existing literature that deals with universal design in the built environment as well as in relation to material objects. While not dealing exclusively about the intersection of disabled doctors and universal design, these are books that may serve as starting points for disabled doctors as well as the able-bodied community around them to start thinking about what it would mean and what it would look like for disabled doctors to have their voices heard and consequential in the altering and changing of medical environments such as hospitals, clinics, rehabilitation centers, and more.
Books:
Building Access: Universal Design and the Politics of Disability by Aimi Hamraie (University of Minnesota Press, 2017)
Accessible America: A History of Disability and Design by Bess Williamson (NYU Press, 2019)
What Can a Body Do? by Sara Hendren (Riverhead Books, 2020)
The Architecture of Disability: Buildings, Cities, and Landscapes Beyond Access by David Gissen (University of Minnesota Press, January 2023 – forthcoming)
Doing Disability Differently: An Alternative Handbook on Architecture, Dis/ability and Designing for Everyday Life by Jos Boys (Taylor and Francis, 2014)