During September we used the blog to test out ideas that we might make part of our work in the first year of the Critical Physiotherapy Network. Each day we posted up a new idea and people voted on whether they liked the idea or not. Here are the results. The top 10 most popular projects were, in order: Explaining philosophy to physios (#15) Starting a critical physiotherapy journal (#7) Running a colloquium in the South of France (#1) Collaborating on a critical physiotherapy book (#23) Running a webinar (#24) Profiling group members (#4) Overcoming barriers to publishing in English (#25) Developing critical curricula for physiotherapy schools (#3) Developing our … [Read more...] about Results from 30 Days of September
Important new edition of Body and Society – Movement and cultural theory
"There is never a body as such...a body is its movement"Body & Society has just announced a special edition of it's journal, with a large part devoted to movement and phenomenology (link to contents page here). The edition features a number of important writers on the philosophy of movement, but I wanted to draw your attention to some new work from Erin Manning - author of the brilliant book 'Relationscapes' which offers an amazing critical analysis of movement. I've included abstracts and keywords to the four main articles that concentrate on Manning's critique of Merleau-Ponty's phenomenology and Alfred North Whitehead's process philosophy. Note, there is additional material to … [Read more...] about Important new edition of Body and Society – Movement and cultural theory
Educating Health Professionals: an Intersectoral Policy Approach
This report Educating Health Professionals-an Intersectoral Policy Approach was sent to us by Prof. Dr. Heidi Höppner MPH, Professorin für Physiotherapie, Förderung der Gesundheit und Teilhabe in Berlin (hoeppner@ash-berlin.eu). Thinking about the future of health and care At present, the health system and the health industry are undergoing historic changes and are confronted with major challenges. The health society is increasingly interconnected globally, which leads to a shift in the traditional boundaries between disciplines and professions, institutions and countries. By the same token, the relation between service provision and citizen, market and regulation, doctor and patient, … [Read more...] about Educating Health Professionals: an Intersectoral Policy Approach
The Medical Profession and Massage Establishments (from The Lancet, 1897)
A memoir of chronic pain
Courtesy of my good friend and colleague Dinah Bradley (Breathing Works), a new phenomenologically-inspired non-fiction work on the lived experience of chronic pain. How Does It Hurt?, is a memoir of chronic pain––a condition which, despite advances in the science of pain and alleviation of acute or temporary pain, remains little understood and poorly communicated, while silently reaching epidemic proportions. The narrative aims to bring visibility and a measure of clarity to the lived experience of continuing physical pain. In particular, it confronts the paradox of writing about personal pain, notwithstanding pain’s resistance to verbal expression, and reflects on the ways in which other … [Read more...] about A memoir of chronic pain
Children and disability
This message was posted this week on the H-Disability network page. You can contact Kate by clicking on her name at the bottom of the post: I'm posting for a colleague, whose MA student is beginning research on children, disability and British/American literature. I've already suggested The Secret Garden, and would be grateful for the link or ref for a recent journal special issue or book of essays on this subject. I'm sure I saw announcements about such a thing in the last 2 months, but cannot find it on online searches. Many thanks, Kate Macdonald. … [Read more...] about Children and disability
Interview with Tobba Therkildsen Sudmann
As part of our 'interview' series with people in the Critical Physiotherapy Network, I asked Tobba Therkildsen Sudmann some questions about her approach to physiotherapy, research and life in general. Tobba is the Head of the Masters programme in Community Work at Bergen University College in Bergen, Norway. Your thesis ‘(En)gendering body politics: Physiotherapy as a window on health and illness’ explored your interest in contemporary social theory and critical hermeneutics and talks about physiotherapy as a precarious social encounter (see link to thesis here). Can you talk more about where your interest in these subjects comes from and how your background has influenced your … [Read more...] about Interview with Tobba Therkildsen Sudmann