Next week we have the 4th in our series of free online critical physiotherapy seminars. This one will be led by Patty Thille, talking about "What does it mean to 'care'? Thinking with Annemarie Mol". Details of how to connect and the times of the talk in your local area are below. Zoom link: https://aut.zoom.us/j/241857657 Dates and times in your area Location Local Time Time Zone UTC Offset Auckland (New Zealand - Auckland) Friday, 24 May 2019 at 7:00:00 a.m. NZST UTC+12 hours Sydney (Australia - New South Wales) Friday, 24 May 2019 at 5:00:00 a.m. AEST UTC+10 hours Perth (Australia - Western Australia) Friday, 24 May 2019 at 3:00:00 … [Read more...] about The 4th free online critical physiotherapy seminar next week with Patty Thille
I and You
“Without this mind-set, which Buber called “I-It,” there would be no science, economics, or politics. But, the more we engage in such thinking, the farther we drift from “I-You,” his term for addressing other people directly as partners in dialogue and relationship. Only when we say “You” to the world do we perceive its miraculous strangeness and, at the same time, its potential for intimacy. Indeed, it’s not only human beings who deserve to be called “You.” As Buber wrote, even a cat or a piece of mica can summon up in us the feeling of a genuine encounter with another: “When something does emerge from among things, something living, and becomes a being for me . . . it is for me nothing but … [Read more...] about I and You
CPN Digest #34
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