What Can a Body Do?

Title: What Can a Body Do? Author: Sara Hendren ISBN: 9780735220003 Publisher: Riverhead Books Published: 2020 Binding: Hardcover Language: English Condition: New New from the publisher Architecture & Design 1694181 Publisher Description: Named a Best Book of the Year by NPR and LitHub Winner of the 2021 Science in Society Journalism Book Prize A fascinating and provocative new way of looking at the things we use and the spaces we inhabit, and a call to imagine a better-designed world for us all. 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 environmen