The Fundamental Violence of Physiotherapy with Filip Maric Zoom link for the meeting: https://aut.zoom.us/j/622770935 Abstract This online session builds on the eponymous article and will discuss The fundamental violence of physiotherapy: Emmanuel Levinas’s critique of ontology and its implications for physiotherapy theory and practice. Ontology and epistemology are generally thought to be the fundamental building blocks of any theory and practice. Levinas’s critique acutely highlights a significant problem that underpins both of these areas of philosophical inquiry and their understanding and positioning as fundamental. Applied to physiotherapy, this critique … [Read more...] about The 7th and final talk in this year’s Critical Physiotherapy Course is next week
Call for papers for new Journal of Praxis in Higher Education
Prof Anne Kinsella, one of the editors of our upcoming collection of critical physiotherapy writings - Mobilising knowledge - is on the editorial board of this new journal. Here is a recent call for papers. Journal of Praxis in Higher Education JPHE is a new international, open access, online journal dedicated to high quality research on praxis within, and related to, teaching, learning and researching in higher education.It is now calling for papers for its first issue to be published November 1, 2019. Praxis is a contested term that, in many contexts, is used interchangeably with ‘practice’, or understood as routine or habitual human activity. However, it has also come … [Read more...] about Call for papers for new Journal of Praxis in Higher Education
CPN Digest #47
Something for the weekend: The Language of Illness and Death on Social Media: An Affective Approach Dog learns new tricks via vibrating vest How the Victorians invented leisure Stop being reasonable Inequality of access to physiotherapy …and an important commentary by Hunt, Cleaver, et al Key Push and Pull Factors Affecting Return to Work Identified by Patients With Long-Term Pain The Medical Profession in Mexico, 1800-1870 A new paper from Rosi Braidotti The problem of conflating correlation with causation ‘I liked having confused, vaguely questioning ideas that then fell apart’ Book list on AI and robotics in healthcare and education Organised sport might not be as … [Read more...] about CPN Digest #47
Professional values
A recent study in Physiotherapy Canada looked to try to identify core physiotherapy professional values from both primary and grey literature and the views of physiotherapists attending the 2016 CPA Congress. The findings of the study perhaps unsurprising, with 10 values coming out most strongly: accountabilityadvocacyaltruismcompassion and caringequityexcellenceintegritypatient and client centredrespectsocial responsibility What is interesting about these values is not so much that they are stated at all - after all, most established health professions could and do claim similar values - but rather how they are acquired. Physiotherapy training programmes go to inordinate amounts … [Read more...] about Professional values
CPN Digest #46
Something for the weekend: Who is doing inter- and transdisciplinary research, and why?The world’s to 50 thinkers 2019Derrida and Foucault. Philosophy, Politics, and Polemics (2017)Yoga for prisonersSensor-filled skin gives prosthetic hand a better sense of touchMarxism and Buddhism on pain and sufferingOn how to disagreeWhat Contributions, if Any, Can Non-Indigenous Researchers Offer Toward Decolonizing Health Research?Problematization, with Foucault, Bachelard and DeleuzeSpecial Issue on the Anthropocene in the Study of Higher EducationJane Austen’s exercise planDesign crash test dummies to look like men and more women die in car accidentsThe Anthropology of Sport, Bodies, Borders, … [Read more...] about CPN Digest #46
Affect, Knowledge and Embodiment (Spanish translation)
La semana pasada asistí a un taller llamado: Afecto, Conocimiento y Encarnación. Fue parte de una serie de talleres de Arte / Investigación Feminista Crítica que incluyó charlas sobre métodos visuales participativos, ficción sociológica y creación de revistas, que nos presentaron la Dra. Ashleigh Watson, la Dra. Laura Rodríguez Castro y Samantha Trayhurn. ¿Qué es un zine? “Un zine es una publicación clandestina con mensajes políticos sin censura donde puedes expresarte sin las limitaciones de los medios de comunicación” Había dos actividades esenciales que necesitábamos hacer en preparación para el taller: 1. Traer algunas notas escritas a mano o impresas, reacciones, … [Read more...] about Affect, Knowledge and Embodiment (Spanish translation)
Resources for Hazel Horobin’s session on Identity
Hazel Horobin presented the 6th Critical Physiotherapy Course session on 'Symbolic meanings in physiotherapy'. Here you can find links to Hazel's: … [Read more...] about Resources for Hazel Horobin’s session on Identity