Something for the weekend: Disabled Philosopher Shelley Tremain Seeks Your AssistanceThe Significance of Mobility in Alfred Schutz’s Theory of ActionWomen, wellbeing and the city: A model of participatory health research exploring physical activity in Black, Asian and minority ethnic communitiesExpanding and improving trans affirming care in Australia: experiences with healthcare professionals among transgender young people and their parentsWalking as arts-based educational researchMaking peace with gravityWorking the aporia: ethnography, embodiment and the ethnographic selfKeep science irrational‘The body is an act of exchange and a site of vulnerability in a complex and more-than-human … [Read more...] about CPN Digest #121
CPN Digest #120
Something for the weekend: Now you see it, now you don’t: methods for perceiving intersubjectivityThe importance of empathyHuman Dignity as an Existentiale? On Paul Ricoeur’s Phenomenology of Human DignityPaulo Freire. Pedagogy of Hope. Reliving Pedagogy of the Oppressed. My Notes.Is There Space for Disabled People in the Period Positive Movement?Dance for people with chronic breathlessness: a transdisciplinary approach to intervention developmentA couple of philosophical musings on the pandemic (here and here)Culturally Proficient Professional Learning: A new lens to look at professional learning and enhance learning transferInterview with Bryan S Turner: Reflections on the 25th … [Read more...] about CPN Digest #120
CPN Digest #119
Something for the weekend: The digital transformation of work: A relational viewNow you see it, now you don’t: methods for perceiving intersubjectivityStraddling Death and (Re)birth: A Disabled Latina’s Meditation on Collective Care and Mending in Pandemic TimesAssessment of a deep-learning system for fracture detection in musculoskeletal radiographsA manifesto by Alain de BottonThe Obligation of Self-DiscoveryThe subjective turnMovement photosBe a 'secret agent' and other new ways to exercisePhilosophers on access to medicineEnacting objects and subjects in a children’s rehabilitation clinic: Default and shifting ontological politics of muscular dystrophy careWinning Trust for a Vaccine … [Read more...] about CPN Digest #119
The CPN year in review
Notwithstanding everything else that's gone on this year, we've had another busy and productive 12 months in the CPN. We now have just over 700 members in 49 countries. The website has attracted 60,000 more views this year and we've managed to produce 130 blogposts (nearly 900 since the site was established six years ago). We've published our second edited collection of critical physiotherapy writings - Mobilizing knowledge: Critical Reflections on Foundations and Practices - which was two years in the making and involved 39 authors from seven different countries and 15 different professional disciplines. We ran a second Critical Physiotherapy Course over six months between April … [Read more...] about The CPN year in review
CPN Digest #118
Something for the weekend: Fascias: Methodological Propositions and Ontologies That Stretch and SlideTowards a Theory of Posthuman Care: Real Humans and Caring RobotsExploring patient education unmet needs for rare and complex connective tissue and musculoskeletal diseasesPause and Forward: Body, Movement, and COVIDThe anatomy of touch, and the need to touch‘You're just a locum’: professional identity and temporary workers in the medical professionThe future of education explained by 7 of the world's most inspiring expertsThe 5th vital sign: How the pain scale fails usThese 6 skills cannot be replicated by artificial intelligenceWhat is the difference between competencies, skills and … [Read more...] about CPN Digest #118
CPN Digest #117
Something for the weekend: ‘I Can't Breathe’: The Suffocating Nature of RacismFaculty Perceptions of the Relation Between Liberal Arts and Professional, Vocational, and Skills-Based Programs of StudyAI Can Help Patients—but Only If Doctors Understand ItIs freedom white?A brief history of presidents disclosing – or trying to hide – health problem and thisWe’re touching our smartphones more than ever. And it’s changing the ancient connection between the body and the brainAcademics Without BordersNHS will need more than 1,000 new consultants, physios and counsellors to treat long Covid patients2020 Foundation for the Sociology of Health and Illness Book Prize shortlistNarratives of Recovery … [Read more...] about CPN Digest #117
CPN Digest #116
Something for the weekend: JHR Special Edition 2020 NewsletterBloomsbury’s “Critical Interventions in the Medical and Health Humanities” Book SeriesPedagogy and Technology from a Postdigital PerspectiveZoom and beyond - new variations for online meetings and conferencesWe must learn from the experiences of disabled studentsLazy, Crazy and Disgusting: Stigma and the Undoing of Global HealthSurgical corsets, respirators: a new exhibition showcases the art hidden in medical devicesTeaching healthcare during Covid-19 – a marathon and not a sprintA Critical Imaginal Hermeneutics Approach to Explore Unconscious Influences on Professional Practices: A Ricoeur and Jung PartnershipYou don’t have … [Read more...] about CPN Digest #116