Something for the weekend: Dance Easy: Breathe Better and Feel GoodHumanity and nature are not separate we must see them as one to fix the climate crisisLearning to manage uncertainty: supervision, trust and autonomy in residency trainingIlluminating nursing's shadow side through a Jungian analysis of the film Fog in AugustHealth technology identities and self. Patients’ appropriation of an assistive device for self‐management of chronic illnessQuarantraining at homeDissecting the Student Experience at Australian Medical Schools, 1884–1912No patient is an islandThe Individual Person at the Center: An Interview with Julia KristevaRebecca Solnit: 'I came to the idea of hope as an activist … [Read more...] about CPN Digest #85
CPN Digest #84
Something for the weekend: An implant uses machine learning to give amputees control over prosthetic handsWe should use ‘I’ more in academic writing – there is benefit to first-person perspectiveTwo-eyed seeingThe library of nonhuman books A Bourdieusian approach to class‐related inequalities“There is a clear difference in salary outcomes based on degree classifications – and the gap appears to be widening”Studying one uni subject in four weeks has benefits – but students risk burnout if it’s not done right5 Leading Female Artists On Their Daily Routines & How To Be More Creative Now“Sit Yourself Down”: Women’s Experiences of Negotiating Physical Activity During PregnancyHealth … [Read more...] about CPN Digest #84
CPN Digest #83
Something for the weekend: Towards a relational conceptualization of empathyLiving with constant organizational changeA real life experiment illuminates the future of books and readingHow Sociophenomenology of the Body Problematises the ‘Problem-Oriented Approach’ to Growth Hormone TreatmentA robot that taught itself to walk entirely on it’s own‘Why do we need colours?’ A blind boy and a sighted girl experience a meadowMarcus Aurelius helped me survive grief and rebuild my lifeMaria Popova traces the connections between scientists, artists and writers in a highly original survey of life, love and creativityConsidering the Queer Disabled/Debilitated Body: An Introduction of Queer … [Read more...] about CPN Digest #83
Looking back on the biopsychosocial model
In the 2nd in this series of occasional posts looking back on the last six years of CPN blogposts we return to the thorny issue of the biopsychosocial model. Thorny because the BPS remains a touchstone for physiotherapists who claim to offer a more holistic therapy. All of these posts take a different view. Hopefully you'll still find returning to these arguments challenging and inspiring. The first post comes from October 2016 and asked whether the biopsychosocial model was all it was cracked up to be. The post focused on the claims of the BPS model to be holistic and pondered ' how the model has saturated people's thinking at the exclusion of other ways of being 'holistic'.This post … [Read more...] about Looking back on the biopsychosocial model
CPN Digest #82
Something for the weekend: Graphic illustration of impairment: science fiction, Transmetropolitan and the social model of disability¼ of climate change tweets are from botsWhy do corporations speak the way they do?Look inside transparent organsDon’t blame neoliberalism for postmodern conservatismThe evidence for evidence-based therapy is not as clear as we thoughtA place of silenceJacques Rancière: The crisis of democracy“A Sovereign Remedy”: Grimault & Co’s Asthma Cigarette EmpireEverything you know about obesity is wrongSoreness is good and scales are pointless: the 10 biggest myths in fitnessMax Weber invented the crisis of the humanitiesWhen was the last time you were touched? … [Read more...] about CPN Digest #82
Physiotherapy in a time of pandemic – an addendum
Earlier this week I wrote a post on the history of physiotherapy in times of pandemic for the history.physio site (link here). I've been thinking a lot about this recently and wanted to add a couple of more philosophical reflections that I hoped might be therapeutic for readers. The first thought ties in nicely with the history piece, and it is that we should remember that for almost the entire span of human history, humans have lived with the threat of illness and death, and it is only in the last half-century that some have enjoyed stable economies and secure employment, access to immediate, low-cost, advanced healthcare, good food and safe living conditions. I say 'some' because, … [Read more...] about Physiotherapy in a time of pandemic – an addendum
CPN Digest #81
Something for the weekend: Does technology care?Hartmut Rosa’s A sociology of our relationship to the worldreviewedHave we lost the innovation spirit?Digital sclerosisSwim feralHow to Innovate for Equity. 10 Days. 100 Ideas.Embodiment and the ethnographic selfReframing photovoice10 breakthrough technologies for 2020Louis Althusser - inveterate ignoramusThe clever robot that feels with lightMemory and Anatomical Learning at Bologna in the Fourteenth to Early Sixteenth CenturiesLecture recordings mean fewer students. Does it matter?Nietzsche, nihilism and reasons to be cheerfulReading augmentation and disability across cultural theory, representation and product design … [Read more...] about CPN Digest #81