Han Yu is a professor in the Department of English at Kansas State University, where she teaches scientific and technical communication. Her books include Mind Thief: The Story of Alzheimer’s (Columbia, 2021).

Han Yu provides an engaging and accessible meditation on the human knee—its evolution, its structure, its function, its pathologies, its weaknesses, as well as its roles in society and fashion, the feminist and equality movements, and aggression. Who knew there were so many ways to view the human knee?

• 1. Knees Before the Brain2. Confused Anatomy3. Bare Knees, Dicey Power4. The Weaker Sex?5. To Kneel, or Not to Kneel6. Treatment, or Placebo7. The Hurtful Knee8. Race and Money9. Last WordsNotesBibliographyIndex

Han Yu is a professor in the Department of English at Kansas State University, where she teaches scientific and technical communication. Her books include Mind Thief: The Story of Alzheimer’s (Columbia, 2021).

Han Yu provides an engaging and accessible meditation on the human knee—its evolution, its structure, its function, its pathologies, its weaknesses, as well as its roles in society and fashion, the feminist and equality movements, and aggression. Who knew there were so many ways to view the human knee?

• 1. Knees Before the Brain2. Confused Anatomy3. Bare Knees, Dicey Power4. The Weaker Sex?5. To Kneel, or Not to Kneel6. Treatment, or Placebo7. The Hurtful Knee8. Race and Money9. Last WordsNotesBibliographyIndex

Han Yu is a professor in the Department of English at Kansas State University, where she teaches scientific and technical communication. Her books include Mind Thief: The Story of Alzheimer’s (Columbia, 2021).

Han Yu provides an engaging and accessible meditation on the human knee—its evolution, its structure, its function, its pathologies, its weaknesses, as well as its roles in society and fashion, the feminist and equality movements, and aggression. Who knew there were so many ways to view the human knee?

• 1. Knees Before the Brain2. Confused Anatomy3. Bare Knees, Dicey Power4. The Weaker Sex?5. To Kneel, or Not to Kneel6. Treatment, or Placebo7. The Hurtful Knee8. Race and Money9. Last WordsNotesBibliographyIndex