*SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2022 BARBELLION PRIZE* *A BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week* As seen on Sky Arts Book Club with Elizabeth Day and Andi Oliver An eye-opening account of disability, identity, and how robotics and technology are changing what it means to be human - from the bestselling author of Anatomy of a Soldier Harry Parker's life changed overnight, when he lost his legs to an IED in Afghanistan. That took him into an often surprising landscape of a very human kind of hacking, and he wondered, are all humans becoming hybrids? Parker introduces us to the exhilarating breadth of human invention - and intervention. Grappling with his own new identity and disability, he discovers the latest robotics, tech and implants that might lead us to powerful, liberating possibilities for what a body can be. 'I loved Hybrid Humans. A way of looking at the future without nostalgia for the past' - Jeanette Winterson
| ISBN: | 9781788163118 |
| Publication date: | 2nd February 2023 |
| Author: | Harry Parker, Wellcome Collection |
| Publisher: | Wellcome Collection an imprint of Profile |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 216 pages |
| Genres: |
Popular Science History of engineering and technology Memoirs History of science Biographies & Autobiographies Society and Social Sciences |