Something for the weekend: Cystic fibrosis, autoethnography and illness transformations How healthcare environments affect health outcomes How machines construct childhood An enactive approach to pain: beyond the biopsychosocial model Infusing Rehabilitation with Critical Research and Scholarship: A Call to Action Home care as reablement or enabling arrangements? Brain Implant Can Say What You’re Thinking Critical Intimacy: An Interview with Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak McDowell and Husserl on Bodily Expressivity and the Problem of Other Minds Peeling Off the Layers in Qualitative Research Deep learning predicts hip fracture The brain makes no distinction between a broken bone … [Read more...] about CPN Digest #34
What is the biomedical model #7
The last in the series looking at the biomedical model focuses on perhaps the most important aspect of the model for physiotherapists – the body-as-machine. If you’ve read anything in critical physiotherapy over the last decade, you will almost certainly have come across the idea of the body-as-machine. Dating back perhaps as far as René Descartes and the idea that the body could be understood as separate from the mind, the body-as-machine became a specially powerful metaphor for medicine after the Industrial Revolution. Machinery, it seemed, provided the perfect metaphor for how body should work, because if industrialists could organise the production of food, fabrics, … [Read more...] about What is the biomedical model #7
CPN Digest #33
Something for the weekend: Hiking with Nietzsche Challenging assumptions about ‘normal’ development in children’s rehabilitation Tensions living out professional values for physical therapists treating injured workers On Critical Theories and Digital Media Experiencing physical activity across the life-course: The case of injured rugby players The digital subject: People as data as persons The impact of healthcare spending on health outcomes Industrial fatigue and the productive body Americans sitting more than ever and this How WWI brought new skills and professions back to Australia Stop depicting technology as redeeming disabled people … [Read more...] about CPN Digest #33
What is the biomedical model #6
Thus far, we’ve covered five of the main features of the biomedical model - the model that underpins so much of the theory behind the way physiotherapy functions. These have been: Specific aetiology, or the search for the specific cause of the patient’s signs and symptoms Germ theory and the belief that illness is caused by disease within the body Cartesian dualism and the mind-body split Objectivity and experimentation And reductionism, or the anti-holistic belief that the person can be understood as a collection of systems and structures In this penultimate post, we’ll look at normalisation. Normalisation is the belief that certain people, certain … [Read more...] about What is the biomedical model #6
CPN Digest #32
Something for the Easter weekend: The European Network of Physiotherapy in Higher Education Spring Newsletter ICF: A Hands-on Approach for Clinicians and Families Cheer* in Health Care Practice: What It Excludes and Why It Matters Hospital develops AI to identify patients likely to skip appointments Technology Ethics in Qualitative Research: How to Be The role of AHPs in developing digital capabilities The self-care paradox Home/work for women workers Do you compute? Complementary and Alternative Medicine: Knowledge Production and Social Transformation. A palpating robot Clinical educators’ skills and qualities in allied health: a systematic … [Read more...] about CPN Digest #32
3rd Critical Physiotherapy Course – Resources
We had another fabulous online critical physiotherapy course session yesterday, this time delivered by Gail Teachman. Here are the resources for the talk. Audio recording | PowerPoint slides | Chat Our next session will be 23 May at 19:00 GMT featuring Patty Thille presenting on 'What does it mean to care? Thinking with Annemarie Mol'. More information, links, and invites will come out a week or two before the next session. … [Read more...] about 3rd Critical Physiotherapy Course – Resources
What is the biomedical model #5
In the 5th of this series on the key principles of the biomedical model we look at reductionism, or the idea of dividing the body and health into systems and structures. So far we have covered specific aetiology, germ theory, Cartesian Dualism, objectivity and experimentation, and there are two more pieces in the biomedical jigsaw after this week’s look at one of the most important structural elements of healthcare practice. Early on in the history of medicine it was realised that the body and health were so complex that they would be better understood by being broken down into component parts. Ancient and pre-modern notions of health and the body had concentrated on broadly holistic … [Read more...] about What is the biomedical model #5
