”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 [humankind] foster interdependent, not just independent, living? How [does society] creatively engineer public spaces that [allows everyone] to navigate common terrain? By rendering familiar objects and environments newly strange and wondrous, What Can a Body Do? helps [society] imagine a future that will better meet the extraordinary range of [their] collective needs and desires.”