We're very protective of your contact information and have built some pretty strong measures into the CPN site (www.criticalphysio.net) to ensure the information you share as members doesn't leak out. But sometimes that means people have problems logging into the site and accessing the members-only content. Access to this part of the site is going to be really important in the coming 12 months as we launch some big changes across the Network. So we need to know if you're having problems logging in. If you can't remember your password, just follow the normal steps. But if you still can't get in and think something is wrong, email me directly and let me know … [Read more...] about Let me know if you can’t access the CPN site
CPN Digest #162
Something for the weekend: Mass Effect Is Kind of a Utopia for the Chronically Ill Feminism for Women: The Real Route to Liberation by Julie Bindel – review Human progress is no excuse to destroy nature Unlocking Social Theory with Popular Culture The Heart of Flesh: Nietzsche on Affects and the Interpretation of the Body Physician dominance in the 21st century: Examining the rise of non-physician autonomy through prevailing theoretical lenses Parrhesia and Clinical Practice: A Case Study of Dr. Esdaile’s Mesmeric Hospital in Hooghly Bringing Philosophy to Those in Need Towards a sociological understanding of medical gaslighting in western health care An intellectual history … [Read more...] about CPN Digest #162
Should physios still touch?
Has therapeutic touch ever been more topical in physiotherapy than it is today? COVID, the pressure on throughput in the public health system, and poor evidence of efficacy, have all played their part. But the exodus from so-called 'passive' therapies by musculoskeletal private practitioners in recent years has really shrunk what was once one of the profession's main modalities down to the size of a postage stamp. Remember those? But aren't people also craving skilled, empathic touch more than ever? Aren't we, as practitioners, desperate to use our hands again? Or have we given up all hope of hands-on practice and resigned ourselves to remote Zoom consults and do-it-yourself … [Read more...] about Should physios still touch?
CPN Digest #161
Something for the weekend: Ordinary people, extraordinary change: addressing the climate emergency through ‘quiet activismBringing Philosophy to Those in NeedChronic fatigue and university support for disabilitiesWhy Theodor Adorno and the Frankfurt School failed to change the worldThe many faces of disability (podcast)From health care to infrastructure, how AI is changing the world for the betterAn intellectual history of suffering in the Encyclopedia of Bioethics, 1978–2014The rationales for and challenges with employing arts-based health services research (ABHSR): a qualitative systematic review of primary studiesMaking Disability Modern: Design HistoriesIf bell hooks Made an LMS: … [Read more...] about CPN Digest #161
CPN Digest #160
Something for the weekend: Descartes’s Evil GeniusThe Philosopher’s Trail: On Samantha Rose Hill’s “Hannah Arendt”‘Graphic medicine’: how autobiographical comics artists are changing our understanding of illnessIn Search of Creativity in EducationA case for building short-term partnerships for community-based participatory researchJacques Rancière: ‘The issue is to manage to maintain dissensus’Encountering Pain: Hearing, Seeing, SpeakingExperiences of an Exercise ProgramCfP: 6th world disability and rehabilitation conference‘The pine tree, my good friend’: The other as more-than-humanToward a moral commitment: Exposing the covert mechanisms of racism in the nursing discipline and … [Read more...] about CPN Digest #160
Lucy Inyang Edet – 30 DoS – Day 28
I grew up in Nigeria. Sports has always been an important part of my life. In my neighbourhood growing up, I watched the excitement in young boys during football matches every day, and their disappointment missing out following injury. Now, I'm flying high at two things: design and construction of healthcare and sporting facilities, and sports injury rehabilitation. I have served in sustainability, medical doping, healthy athletes, and fun fitness capacities during the FIFA World Cup, the African cup of Nations, an IAAF Road race, the Paralympics, the Special Olympics, and Universaide and Youth games. My most recent work: Can global running gait and psychological status affect … [Read more...] about Lucy Inyang Edet – 30 DoS – Day 28
CPN Digest #159
Something for the weekend: Expressions of Interest: Qualitative Research Editorial Board MembershipEmerging of rogue practices in a gray zone of everyday work life in healthcare, linked to thisMaking Disability Modern: Design Histories‘It’s complicated’: Professional opacity, duality, and ambiguityPregnancy experiences of Vietnamese women with physical disabilities seen through an intersectional lensSensory experiences following a traumatic brain injuryHow professional actions connect and protectBody mass index is just a number: Conflating riskiness and unhealthiness in discourse on body sizeOn Race, the Body, and Researching the UnimaginableHumane Professions: The Defense of Experimental … [Read more...] about CPN Digest #159