Last Saturday, I saw one of the most anarchic, joyful, and truly pointless things I think I’ve ever seen, and it made me think a lot about how we fixate on doing meaningful things in practice. One of my doctoral students is a child psychotherapist. A guy in his early 50s, he grew up listening to bands like Crass in the era of political, hard core punk in the UK (this kind of thing, for instance). He’s been a drummer for years, but isn't formally trained. He has this belief that anyone can play music, or at least make a pretty unruly noise, and you shouldn’t have to be trained musician to be able to express yourself through sound. His latest project is a collaboration with two other … [Read more...] about What’s the point?
CPN Digest #126
Something for the weekend: Sarah Orne Jewett’s depictions of women in a changing medical professionCome Back, Michel Foucault—We Need You!Merit must fallThe objectivity and subjectivity of pain practices in older adults with dementia: A critical reflectionA Caveman Would Never Do CrossFit. Why There’s Nothing Natural About ExerciseNurses as agents of disruption: Operationalizing a framework to redress inequities in healthcare access among Indigenous Peoples‘My Master and Friend’: Social Networks and Professional Identity in American Medicine, 1789–1815Do Canadians have equitable access to physiotherapy services?Oscillating and Depreciating: Early Modern Spanish Views of Unsanctioned … [Read more...] about CPN Digest #126
Borderland practices*
Borders and boundaries seem to have taken on extra importance over the last few months, especially since COVID appears to be entirely indifferent to national borders, and its existence relies on its ability to move freely between us. We’ve spent the summer in New Zealand thanking our lucky stars that we live a long way away in the bottom corner of the South Pacific, and the ability to close our borders has meant life has relatively normal. People can hug and move freely, gather in groups, and care for loved ones. Because of our accident of geography, we’ve been incredibly lucky to have so far dodged the COVID bullet. But even here there are people who object to the government … [Read more...] about Borderland practices*
CPN Digest #125
Something for the weekend: For all I careBiomechanical and phenomenological models of the body, the meaning of illness and quality of careInterpreting Kant in Education: Dissolving Dualisms and Embodying Mind – Introduction and this Empiricism and DualismsTime to challenge our approaches to educationOnline learning is as effective as face-to-face… perhapsBetween Fitness and Death: Disability and Slavery in the Caribbean Patients’ Experiences of Being Cared for in an Intensive Care UnitMeasuring Difference, Numbering Normal: Setting the Standard for Disability in the Interwar PeriodBiomechanical and phenomenological models of the body, the meaning of illness and quality of careJust keep … [Read more...] about CPN Digest #125
CPN Digest #124
Something for the weekend: From hermeneutics to heteroglossia: ‘The Patient’s View’ revisitedPost Qualitative Research - Reality through the Antihierarchical Assemblage of non-Calculation Visualising the body: health professionals’ perceptions of their clinical drawing practicesThe Phenomenology of Revisiting Lived Experience through Photographic Images: Memory Formation, Narrative Construction and Self-EmpowermentThe heart in medicine, history and cultureGendered exposures: exploring the role of paid and unpaid work throughout life in U.S. women’s cardiovascular healthSarah Orne Jewett’s depictions of women in a changing medical profession: Nan Prince and Almira ToddSawbones: Clinical … [Read more...] about CPN Digest #124
CPN Digest #123
Something for the weekend: ‘These Curly-Bearded, Olive-Skinned Warriors’: Medicine, Prosthetics, Rehabilitation and the Disabled Sepoy in the First World War, 1914–1920Review of Health in Hard Times: Austerity and Health InequalitiesTaking the National(ism) out of the National Health Service: re-locating agency to amongst ourselvesScientists and Health Experts Need to Be AdvocatesReview of Healthcare in Motion: Immobilities in Health Service Delivery and AccessParadoxes of professional autonomy: a qualitative study of U.S. neonatologists from 1978‐2017Journal of Humanities in Rehabilitation - Fall newsletterLimitless? Imaginaries of cognitive enhancement and the labouring bodyAgency and … [Read more...] about CPN Digest #123
CPN Digest #122
Something for the weekend: Implicit influence on body image: methodological innovation for research into embodied experienceA tale of two pandemics: A nonfiction comic about historical racial health disparitiesThe Last Children of Down SyndromeA Life Course Perspective on Growing Older With Cerebral PalsyWhy the way we approach transgender and non-binary healthcare needs to changeFrom Description to Interpretive Leap: Using Philosophical Notions to Unpack and Surface Meaning in Hermeneutic Phenomenology ResearchPeak Brain: The Metaphors of NeuroscienceThe Walker by Matthew Beaumont review – an urban wanderlandItaly: new Gramsci mural causes rowBringing some social life to Zoom conferences … [Read more...] about CPN Digest #122