What Can a Body Do?by Sara Hendren (Riverhead Books, 2020)
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Title
What Can a Body Do? by Sara Hendren (Riverhead Books, 2020)
Description
Furniture and tools, kitchens and campuses and city streets—nearly everything human beings make and use is assistive technology, meant to bridge the gap between body and world. Yet unless, or until, a misfit between our own body and the world is acute enough to be understood as disability, we may never stop to consider—or reconsider—the hidden assumptions on which our everyday environment is built.
In a series of vivid stories drawn from the lived experience of disability and the ideas and innovations that have emerged from it—from cyborg arms to customizable cardboard chairs to deaf architecture—Sara Hendren invites us to rethink the things and settings we live with. What might assistance based on the body’s stunning capacity for adaptation—rather than a rigid insistence on “normalcy”—look like? Can we foster interdependent, not just independent, living? How do we creatively engineer public spaces that allow us all to navigate our common terrain? By rendering familiar objects and environments newly strange and wondrous, What Can a Body Do? helps us imagine a future that will better meet the extraordinary range of our collective needs and desires. (Penguin Random House)
In a series of vivid stories drawn from the lived experience of disability and the ideas and innovations that have emerged from it—from cyborg arms to customizable cardboard chairs to deaf architecture—Sara Hendren invites us to rethink the things and settings we live with. What might assistance based on the body’s stunning capacity for adaptation—rather than a rigid insistence on “normalcy”—look like? Can we foster interdependent, not just independent, living? How do we creatively engineer public spaces that allow us all to navigate our common terrain? By rendering familiar objects and environments newly strange and wondrous, What Can a Body Do? helps us imagine a future that will better meet the extraordinary range of our collective needs and desires. (Penguin Random House)
Creator
Sara Hendren
Source
Hendren, S. (n.d.). What can a Body Do? by Sara Hendren. penguinrandomhouse.com. Retrieved April 30, 2022, from https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/561049/what-can-a-body-do-by-sara-hendren/
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Date
2020
Language
English
Type
Book
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Citation
Sara Hendren, “What Can a Body Do?by Sara Hendren (Riverhead Books, 2020),” Disability Inclusivity in Medicine: Representations, Policies, Environment, and Technologies, accessed April 26, 2025, https://mail.dhd752groupproject.digital.uic.edu/items/show/14.