Something for the weekend: In Strangers’ Hands: Thai Massage Services in SloveniaExistential comics: Wittgenstein17 quotes to help with criticismCommon worlds research collectiveGood Posture Matters Even More Than You ThinkTherapy the Natural Way: A Realist Exploration of the Wilderness Therapy Treatment ProcessDifference Within and Without: Health Care Providers’ Engagement With Disability ArtsCfP: Freedom, work and organizations in the 21st centuryUnderdogs breaking the rulesProprioception of the Hand: Stelarc’s Object-Oriented RelationsResearch Fellow in Biomedicine, Self and Society: Beyond BodiesDisability, Normalcy, and the EverydayMilitary‐style fitness boot camps: contested … [Read more...] about CPN Digest #39
Critique of the biomedical model #3 (or what it really means to be a person)
Physiotherapy, and biomedicine generally, owes a lot to René Descartes (for a refresher on an earlier post on the critical issue of Cartesian Dualism in PT, go here). But Descartes’ influence extends much further than just the body-as-machine, and has fundamentally shaped medicine and physiotherapy practice ethics for more than 100 years. 400 years ago, Descartes set out to discover what could be known beyond doubt. His method was to doubt everything, from the existence of physical objects around him, to dreams and ideas. What was left, he surmised, would be the basis upon which all knowledge could be built. The first thing Descartes believed he could trust was that he himself was … [Read more...] about Critique of the biomedical model #3 (or what it really means to be a person)
The 5th critical physiotherapy course is next week: Tobba Sudmann on ‘How to understand disability’
The 5th in our 2019 series of Critical Physiotherapy Courses will be led by Tobba Sudmann, Physiotherapist and Professor of Public Health at the Centre for Care Research, Western Norway University of Applied Sciences. The session is titled 'How to understand disability? On the making of disability though discourse, materiality and practice'. As always, the session is free, all you need to do is click on the link below at the time of the meeting to listen in. Zoom link: https://aut.zoom.us/j/408228596 Session times around the world for 5th Critical Physiotherapy Course session Abstract This session will show how the phenomenon ‘disability’ is created through our modern … [Read more...] about The 5th critical physiotherapy course is next week: Tobba Sudmann on ‘How to understand disability’
