Over the last few weeks, we've been running a series of posts on the biomedical model. This approach, perhaps more than any other, forms the solid foundations for a lot of physiotherapy theory and practice, so it makes sense to try to understand it better. Here are the links to all the respective posts that make up the complete set: What is the biomedical model #1 - introduction and specific aetiology#2 - germ theory#3 - Cartesian dualism#4 - experimentation#5 - reductionism#6 - normalisation#7 - body-as-machine Critique of the biomedical model #1 - mind-body dualism#2 - medical power#3 - what it means to be a person#4 - standard deviation#5 - (ab)normal … [Read more...] about The biomedical model – for better or worse
What’s current in critical psychology?
The International Society of Critical Health Psychology (ISCHP) conference will be in Bratislava next week. In preparation, the organisation has published its book of abstracts. I’ve found it very useful searching for specific terms (like stigma, pain, and Foucault) to see what work is being presented. There are some really interesting ideas being talked about here, and some potentially useful connections with the people doing the work. The book of abstracts can be found here: … [Read more...] about What’s current in critical psychology?
CPN Digest #42
Something for the weekend: The treadmill's dark and twisted past A Qualitative Study Exploring Physical Therapists’ Attitudes Toward Their Roles in Weight Management for People With Knee Osteoarthritis A qualitative study of long-term users’ experiences of physiotherapy in primary health care When Bodies Think: Panpsychism, Pluralism, Biopolitics The science of how we sense ourselves from within Framing citizenship: from assumptions to possibilities in health and physical education The perils of the human imagination Risk and the Spectral Politics of Disability Understanding Physiotherapists’ Intention to Counsel Clients with Chronic Pain on Exercise A critical habermasian … [Read more...] about CPN Digest #42
CPN Digest #41
Something for the weekend: The Fitness Craze That Changed the Way Women Exercise Philosophical bias is the one bias that science cannot avoid The Utopian Leisure of Soviet Sanatoriums Hegel and history How long does it take to mark an exam? Our culture affects the way we look after ourselves. It should shape the health care we receive, too Working the edges of Posthuman disability studies: theorising with disabled young people with life‐limiting impairments Special issue on auto-ethnography and activism Leisure and its educational embodiment Living with Parkinson’s Shaping Our Algorithms Before They Shape Us - by Michael Rowe Chronic living conference 2020 Exploring … [Read more...] about CPN Digest #41
Keynote opportunity
The Latin American Centre for Development of Physiotherapy and Kinesiology and the Colombian Physiotherapy Association are looking to invite a keynote speaker to their IX Meeting of Academics in Physiotherapy and VIII ELA. The meeting will be held in the city of Barranquilla, Colombia on October 30 and 31 of 2019 (but presentations can also be pre-recorded or given online at distance). The meeting will focus on the training of physiotherapists as first contact professionals - both the opportunities and challenges, as well as the issues faced by the social, normative and political contexts in different countries. We would be grateful to hear from you or colleagues that you know who … [Read more...] about Keynote opportunity
Critique of the biomedical model #5
So far in this short series on the problems with the biomedical model we’ve looked at the mind-body separation, biomedicine’s claims to objectivity and access to the truth about health and illness, it’s construction of atomistic individuality, and last week, the problematic nature of normalisation. In this post we’ll look at the passivity that biomedicine engenders in patients. Biomedicine is a powerful discourse and it has brought enormous power and social capital not only to the medical profession, but also to those who practice in its image. One of the most widely voiced critiques of medicine is that it is hegemonic (or dominant not through force but a degree of consent and … [Read more...] about Critique of the biomedical model #5
Resources for 5th Critical Physiotherapy Course
Here you can find all the resources from last week's Critical Physiotherapy Course seminar run by Tobba Sudmann. Tobba's talk was titled 'How to understand disability? On the making of disability though discourse, materiality and practice'. A huge thank you (again) to Tobba for her superb seminar. We had another really great turnout, and some inspiring new ideas. Audio recording (link) … [Read more...] about Resources for 5th Critical Physiotherapy Course