Something for the weekend: Rethinking Environmental Education with the Help of Indigenous Ways of Knowing and Traditional Ecological KnowledgeGamification in physical therapySlowness as a virtueRe‐imagining placements through an activity systems lensLand, Language and Listening: The Transformations That Can Flow from Acknowledging Indigenous LandThe Pursuit of Happiness as an Educational GoalRobotization and Welfare Trends in FutureHealth fads of the 18th and 19th century (including walking)There’s no such thing as a self-made billionaireSpecialist referral rules haven’t changed much since the 70s, but Australia’s health needs sure haveIntelligent humanoid robots expressing artificial … [Read more...] about CPN Digest #115
CPN Digest #114
Something for the weekend: A brief history of ventilationPhD students need support at the best of the times. How can you help in a pandemic?Touching Matters: Affective Entanglements in CoronatimeThe real origins of neoliberalismEnabling precision rehabilitation interventions using wearable sensors and machine learning to track motor recoveryThe Well-Being Index WHO-5Men, masculinities and diabetes: ‘doing gender’ in Italian men’s narratives of chronic illnessBarriers and challenges faced by Brazilian physiotherapists during the COVID-19 pandemic and innovative solutions: lessons learned and to be shared with other countriesThe WHO, a historyOut of Touch? Challenges in Reconnecting Bodies … [Read more...] about CPN Digest #114
CPN Digest #113
Something for the weekend: Care of Children With Disabilities in Rural Areas: Meanings and Impact on Everyday life and Health. Study ProtocolHow American textbooks taught white supremacy, and how it shaped its attitudes towards conservationA postmodern approach to educational leadershipAusterity and physiotherapy in the UKExercised by Daniel Lieberman review – fitness myths explodedForced sterilization policies in the US targeted minorities and those with disabilities – and lasted into the 21st centuryThe Dawn of Healer-Therapist in South AfricaPain-sensing electronic silicone skin paves the way for smart prosthetics and skin graftsProviding Rehabilitation in Outdoor Community SettingsThe … [Read more...] about CPN Digest #113
CPN Digest #112
Something for the weekend: The singular patient in patient-centred care: physiotherapists’ accounts of treatment of patients with chronic muscle pain Using MRI art, poetry, photography and patient narratives to bridge clinical and human experiences of stroke recoveryMultimodal, Co-operative, and Intercorporeal Ways of Seeing Video Data as Complementary Professional VisionsThe role of ‘profit’ is the elephant in the aged care roomThe Politics of MethodThe tyranny of chairsStruggling with the uncertainty of life under coronavirus? How Kierkegaard’s philosophy can helpThe Care of Our Hybrid Selves: Towards a Concept of Bildung For Digital TimesPractical wisdom in an age of … [Read more...] about CPN Digest #112
Video from 6th Critical Physiotherapy Course for 2020
Here are the resources for our 6th and final Critical Physiotherapy Course for 2020. How are we doing? Placing human relationships at the heart of physiotherapy, features Jean Braithwaite, Tone Dahl-Michelsen, and Karen Synne Groven talking about their work for the new Mobilizing knowledge CPN book. (The videos below will work best on some browsers, including Firefox and Chrome.) … [Read more...] about Video from 6th Critical Physiotherapy Course for 2020
CPN Digest #111
Something for the weekend: Shame, Stigma and Medicine - special issueComing to Terms with Technoscience: The Heideggerian WayCall for Book Chapters - Representations of Disability in Science FictionSolidarity with nonhumans as an ontological struggleHow Stereotypes Affect Us and What We Can Do, and thisWhy procrastination is about managing emotions, not timeTowards a Theory of Posthuman Care: Real Humans and Caring RobotsWhat More Do Bodies Know? Moving with the Gendered Affects of PlaceHow to ‘ungender’ workPhilosophy's great decade?Faulty ‘tools’? Why social work scholarship needs to take a more critical approach to Michel FoucaultResetting the way we teach science is vital for all our … [Read more...] about CPN Digest #111
Our 2nd Critical Physiotherapy book is out!
After more than two years hard work by an amazing team of editors and writers, we are thrilled to announce that our 2nd collection of critical physiotherapy writings is now in print. Mobilizing Knowledge: Critical Reflections on Foundations and Practices is a collection of 15 collaboratively written critical essays, by 39 authors, from 15 disciplines, and seven countries. The book challenges some of the most important contemporary assumptions about physiotherapy knowledge, and makes the case for much more critical theory, practice, and education in physiotherapy health and social care. Each chapter is a collaboration between a critical physiotherapist and someone from a different … [Read more...] about Our 2nd Critical Physiotherapy book is out!