30DoS 2020 – Day 18

Medicine, Healthcare & Philosophy

Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy: A European Journal is the official journal of the European Society for Philosophy of Medicine and Health Care. It provides a forum for international exchange of research data, theories, reports and opinions on bioethics, and the philosophy of medicine and health care in general. The journal promotes interdisciplinary studies, and stimulates international exchange. Particular attention is paid to developing contributions from all European countries, and to making accessible scientific work and reports on the practice of health care ethics, from all nations, cultures and language areas in Europe.

Link to website: https://www.springer.com/journal/11019/

Drolet, M., Hudon, A. Theoretical frameworks used to discuss ethical issues in private physiotherapy practice and proposal of a new ethical tool. Med Health Care and Philos 18, 51–62 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11019-014-9576-7

Praestegaard, J., Gard, G. & Glasdam, S. Practicing physiotherapy in Danish private practice: an ethical perspective. Med Health Care and Philos 16, 555–564 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11019-012-9446-0

Sviland, R., Martinsen, K. & Råheim, M. To be held and to hold one’s own: narratives of embodied transformation in the treatment of long lasting musculoskeletal problems. Med Health Care and Philos 17, 609–624 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11019-014-9562-0

Whistling Vivaldi: And Other Clues to How Stereotypes Affect Us by Claude M. Steele

Claude M. Steele, who has been called “one of the few great social psychologists,” offers a vivid first-person account of the research that supports his groundbreaking conclusions on stereotypes and identity. He sheds new light on American social phenomena from racial and gender gaps in test scores to the belief in the superior athletic prowess of black men, and lays out a plan for mitigating these “stereotype threats” and reshaping American identities.

Link to book: https://wwnorton.com/books/9780393339727

Adriana Cavarero

Cavarero’s work is situated in the intersection of political philosophy and feminist thought. Many of Cavarero’s books might interest physiotherapists. In Relating Narratives: Storytelling and Selfhood, which work in the intersection of ethics, political discourse and ethics, she developed a theory of selfhood as a ‘narratable self’. In For More Than One Voice, she rethinks the relation between speech and politics. Finally, here more recent work Inclinations: A critique of rectitude, critiques the characterisation of humans as ‘upright’ by analysing philosophy, psychoanalysis, anthropological writings, literature and artworks. Being figured as ‘upright’—that is, standing up, being vertical—produces certain truths and power relations, and obscures a more natural figuration: inclination.

Book review of Inclinations: https://www.radicalphilosophy.com/reviews/individual-reviews/fall-of-philosophicus-erectus

Cavarero, A. (2005). For more than one voice: Toward a philosophy of vocal expression. Stanford, Calif: Stanford University Press.

Cavarero, A. (2016). Inclinations: A critique of rectitude. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press.

Cavarero, A. (2000). Relating narratives: Storytelling and selfhood. London: Routledge.