We’re excited to announce the release of our new book Manipulating practices: A critical physiotherapy reader. It’s now hot off the e-press and you can download entirely free from our publisher Cappelen Damm.
This 16 chapter book includes themes that range from ethics, education and evidence-based practice, to communication, philosophy and research methods. Perhaps most excitingly, the book has been produced as an open source text (with the generous support of the University of Oslo). This is why the book is free for anyone to download and use. Please share and circulate with your colleagues and networks.
This has been a collective effort of a five-person editorial team (Barbara Gibson, Dave Nicholls, Jenny Setchell, Karen Synne Groven and Nicky Petty) and 20 CPN members (in published order):
- Barbara Gibson
- Anna Rajala
- Roger Kerry
- Dave Nicholls
- Blaise Doran
- Jenny Setchell
- Ukachukwu Abaraogu
- Fiona Moffatt
- Tobba Sudmann
- Karen Yoshida
- Tone Dahl-Michelsen
- Karen Synne Groven
- Michael Rowe
- Wenche Bjorbaekmo
- James Shaw
- Amy Hiller
- Clare Delaney
- Nicole Glenn
- Birgitte Ahlsen
- Kari Nyheim Solbraekke.
Huge thanks go to the many contributors and reviews who have helped to produce the book. Your dedication and hard work is much appreciated! We have managed to deliver the book on deadline and met the stringent peer review requirements of Cappelen Damm – Norway’s biggest publisher of scientific literature. Thank you also to Ingrid Eitzen at Cappelen Damm for her help in producing the book.
We’re really thrilled with the outcome and hope that the book helps to deepen the body of knowledge around critical physiotherapy.
Download your copy of the book here
Congratulations to the editors and the Authors of the recent book written by the members of the Critical Physiotherapy Network. It is amazing to notice the success of the book. Yesterday, approaching 7000 downloads.
Yesterday, I attended the meeting with the publishing house where the official launching of the book took place. A philosopher, sociologist, physiologist and a physiotherapist were commenting on the various chapters of the book. Everyone had read it with great interest and expressed pleasure of reading the book. One criticism was forwarded, though. The criticism could have been even better if pople with specialities outside physiotherapy had been invited. Certainly, this could have been the case. However, I consider that the importance of the book is rather to identify and bring forward important issues for discussions from the physiotherapists’ point of view. For such a purpose, physiotherapists have to be best qualified.
Thus, I highly welcome the book as it raises important issues for further discussions within physiotherapy, and it is an important step towards the future in developing critical thoughts further in collaboration with both physiotherapists and others outside physiotherapy.
Again congratulations with the book and thanks for all your efforts in developing the book.
With best regards
Anne Marit Mengshoel, professor
Institute of Health and Society, University of Oslo, Norway