Something for the weekend: Review of Foucault’s political work on critical thinkingYou'll soon be able to scoot around town—at 24 mph—without even having to stand upScience conference are stuck in the dark agesFrom Geoff Dyer to Nietzsche: the best books to inspire wanderlustNietzsche and the Burbs review – deadpan philosophical comedyPatty Thille: The determination to be thinner and fitter this year will not save youNew issue of Foucault StudiesHow the garage created white (segregated) suburbiaDisability//Body//History of TechnologyCFP - Living with Disabilities in New England, 1600-1900Research productivity in OT and PT in four Western countries and five Asian countries/regionsLenses on … [Read more...] about CPN Digest #70
Qualitative Health Research – a guide for the perplexed
Part 1 The changes now taking place in healthcare should provide great material for really thoughtful, well-conduced qualitative health research (QHR). But sadly little of it is being produced, especially in physiotherapy, where the amount and quality of much of the qualitative research we have available is really quite poor. So over the course of the next few weeks, I thought I’d try to tackle some of this in a similar way to the way I hacked at the biomedical model last year (see here). My hope is that in doing this, people will understand more about QHR, and that might, in turn, lead to some new and exciting research. Before I begin, I should acknowledge that there are literally … [Read more...] about Qualitative Health Research – a guide for the perplexed
CPN Digest #68
Something for the weekend: The doomed idea of gender-less leadershipDonna Haraway: Kin and kindnessThe Reinvention of Humanity: How women created anthropologyTaint tanning and heliotherapyHow smart home tech helps me live independentlyWork is a fundamental part of being human. Robots won’t stop us doing itCan Sci-Fi Writers Prepare Us for an Uncertain Future?Final call: International Conference on Qualitative Research in Sport and Exercise abstractsWCPT global country profile mapsLife experienced within and through the body after the age of 85When the researcher becomes the vulnerable oneBlack feminist reflections on power in the research relationshipAI might make healthcare more … [Read more...] about CPN Digest #68
CPN Digest #67
Something for the weekend: Psychologists for Social Change manifesto 2019Robots will affect the most vulnerable mostThings still need to improve for disabled studentsThe rise of women’s cerebral palsy footballThree recent works on the science of consciousnessStudents are telling medical schools about their disabilitiesTime to end drug company distortion of medical evidenceBeware brain stimulationStudents with disabilities need inclusive buildings. We can learn from what’s already workingIt’s phone apps, not phones, that are causing injuriesBrief history of hospital designIs there a threat to truth?The ideas of KantCfP: Art, aesthetics, and medical/health humanitiesMcGill Postdoc: Spaces … [Read more...] about CPN Digest #67
The End of Physiotherapy Keynote – Groningen, Oct 2019
A few months ago I delivered a Keynote at the European Network in Physiotherapy Higher Education (ENPHE) Conference in Groningen, Netherlands on the subject of The End of Physiotherapy. Here is a video of the talk. … [Read more...] about The End of Physiotherapy Keynote – Groningen, Oct 2019
CPN Digest #66
Something for the weekend: CfP: Embodied and Socially Constructed?: Dis/ability in Media, Law, and HistoryThe social organisation of healthcare professionals’ knowledge and practicesDo Professions Represent Competence for Entry-to-Practice in Similar Ways?From army barracks to shopping malls: how hospital design has been a matter of life and deathWill the future of work be ethical?How To Avoid “Inspiration Porn” in disabilityDependenceDisability history podcastSkin matters: An interview with Marc LafranceGilles Deleuze’s Philosophy of Nature: System and Method in What is Philosophy?Disability, Rehabilitation, Welfare Policy and the British Ex-Service Migrant in Australia, 1918–39CfP: … [Read more...] about CPN Digest #66
Common problems
I've spent a lot of time this year doing the background work for the book that will follow The End of Physiotherapy (available now in paperback from all good book sellers, and an ideal Christmas present). On the advice of a friend of mine, who is a prolific author, I try to write books, book chapters, and articles in one go. What I mean is that all of the arguments are corralled first, along with the data, references, texts and quotes, and then when I've ironed out what my arguments will be, I write the whole thing in one go once. This is quite different to a collaborative writing project, which is much more iterative, but it helps to reduce the seemingly endless re-writing … [Read more...] about Common problems