Each day over the next week I'll post up an abstract for a paper being presented by a member of the Critical Physiotherapy Network at the In Sickness and In Health conference in Mallorca in June 2015. (You can find more information on the conference here.) Students of physiotherapy and their raised awareness on stigma and marginalization through health-team work in the Homeless World Cup. By Hilde Sylliaas & Anne G. Langaas Health workers can make a difference for people of marginalized groups. Every year two teachers and 8-10 students of physiotherapy from two different physiotherapy educations in Scandinavia participate as a health-team in the Homeless World Cup (football … [Read more...] about Students of physiotherapy and their raised awareness on stigma and marginalization through health-team work in the Homeless World Cup
Suffrage suspended? Counter-narratives of womens’ quest for professional legitimacy
Each day over the next week I'll post up an abstract for a paper being presented by a member of the Critical Physiotherapy Network at the In Sickness and In Health conference in Mallorca in June 2015. (You can find more information on the conference here.) Suffrage suspended? Counter-narratives of womens’ quest for professional legitimacy David Nicholls A great deal has been written about the role the suffrage movement played in the development of nursing and midwifery during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Much of this research points to roles played by middle- and upper-class women in professionalizing socially validated notions of caring, and the importance of this … [Read more...] about Suffrage suspended? Counter-narratives of womens’ quest for professional legitimacy
Reformulating 'Inclusion': a study with non-speaking disabled youth
Each day over the next week I'll post up an abstract for a paper being presented by a member of the Critical Physiotherapy Network at the In Sickness and In Health conference in Mallorca in June 2015. (You can find more information on the conference here.) Reformulating 'Inclusion': a study with non-speaking disabled youth By Gail Teachman & Barbara Gibson Discourses of 'inclusion' assume a predetermined normative centre that constructs people as either insiders or outsiders along a moral hierarchy that privileges particular bodies. It follows then, that movement towards inclusion necessarily involves a whole series of exclusions. In this presentation we explore these notions through … [Read more...] about Reformulating 'Inclusion': a study with non-speaking disabled youth
Mobilizing Desire: A Deleuzian re-formation of movement
Each day over the next week I'll post up an abstract for a paper being presented by a member of the Critical Physiotherapy Network at the In Sickness and In Health conference in Mallorca in June 2015. (You can find more information on the conference here.) Mobilizing Desire: A Deleuzian re-formation of movement By Barbara Gibson & David Nicholls In the field of rehabilitation medicine, enabling mobility is a primary focus of intervention. Mobilities establish one's place in the world both in terms of material location and through the meanings assigned to different bodily movements and configurations. For example, wheelchairs and walkers allow access to the world but also mark the … [Read more...] about Mobilizing Desire: A Deleuzian re-formation of movement
Physiotherapy at the intersection between the claims of standardization and individual adaptation
Each day over the next week I'll post up an abstract for a paper being presented by a member of the Critical Physiotherapy Network at the In Sickness and In Health conference in Mallorca in June 2015. (You can find more information on the conference here.) Physiotherapy at the intersection between the claims of standardization and individual adaptation By Wenche S. Bjorbækmo When relating to another person, as in the practicing of physiotherapy, each person touches and impacts on the other. Inter-subjectivity and inter-corporality have been highlighted to be at the core of physiotherapy. At the same time physiotherapists are increasingly exhorted to be accountable, to provide evidence of … [Read more...] about Physiotherapy at the intersection between the claims of standardization and individual adaptation
Bodies, voice and change: exploring the construction of fat bodies in health
Each day over the next week I'll post up an abstract for a paper being presented by a member of the Critical Physiotherapy Network at the In Sickness and In Health conference in Mallorca in June 2015. (You can find more information on the conference here.) Bodies, voice and change: exploring the construction of fat bodies in health. By Jenny Setchell, Michael Gard and Irmgard Tischner Recognising the body as a colonised space brings up the question of who has the right to speak about the body. Who determines how it should look, what will make it healthy? Using the fat body within a health care context as an example, I discuss the dominant voice of health professionals in negotiating and … [Read more...] about Bodies, voice and change: exploring the construction of fat bodies in health
Words banned in Italy
This article appeared in the New Zealand Herald in 1932 (Vol LXIX, Issue 21296, 24 September 1932, Page 9) Fascist Italy has officially banned about fifty words of foreign origin now in common use in the Italian language. The list issued by the Confederation of Fascist Professionals and Artists includes the words "omelette," "roughly," "taxi," "parvenu," "dancing," and "masseuse." Italian equivalents have been coined to replace them. Thus, "masseuse" becomes massaggiatrice and the once universal "charm" is now "fascino." Many more words will eventually be added to this "black list." They will include "racing," terms borrowed from the English; and many sporting terms for which proper … [Read more...] about Words banned in Italy