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CPN Digest #16

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Something for the weekend: Humans vs machines (magazine) Managing Stigma: Young People, Asthma, and the Politics of Chronic Illness (article) “Battalion of Life”: American Women’s Hospitals and the First World War (blog) Ethnography, multimodality and walking (article) Bullshit jobs (blog) Private physio practice is star of Samsung advert (blog) Frameworks and research/practice thinking (blog) Medical scientists and philosophers worldwide appeal to EBM to expand the notion of ‘evidence’ - with a special mention for Rani Lill Anjum who is co-editing our upcoming 2nd CPN book (article) Sci-fi needs to overcome its poor history with disabled people (magazine) … [Read more...] about CPN Digest #16

A short CPN update

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' A few noteworthy events have happened at CPN Towers over the last few weeks. CPN Exec calls for more critical scholarship Firstly, an editorial written by various members of the CPN Exec appeared in Physiotherapy Canada today.  Titled Infusing Rehabilitation with Critical Research and Scholarship: A Call to Action, the paper followed a conversation with Prof Dina Brooks after our last CPN Salon in Cape Town last year.  Dina challenged the CPN to do more to explain criticality to physiotherapists, and this paper was part of that conversation (full pdf here). Planning for 2019 Secondly, we had our end-of-year strategic planning meeting last week and had the full Executive present: myself … [Read more...] about A short CPN update

CPN Digest #15

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Something for the weekend Healthcare providers' engagement with disability arts (article) The role of the senses in qualitative research (article) 21st-century data in qualitative research (article) What's wrong with self-management? (article) Standing desks are overrated (magazine) The best philosophy books of 2018 (blog) Digital accessibility (blog) Why the (American) education system is a waste of time and money (podcast) Being there, getting old, and quality of life (blog) The gender qualification gap (magazine) Your riding position can give you an advantage in a road cycling sprint (magazine) Full-body interactions and research methods (article) … [Read more...] about CPN Digest #15