Something for the weekend: The Place of Agency and Related Capacities in Future Practices (Franziska Trede & Joy Higgs) Evolution of physiotherapy scholarship Engagement in performing clinical physiotherapy research: Perspectives from leaders and physiotherapists Cultivating Activism in the Academy: A Deleuzoguattarian Exploration of Phenomenological Projects Key Push and Pull Factors Affecting Return to Work Identified by Patients With Long-Term Pain Sibling Relationships Over the Life Course: Growing Up With a Disability What can happen when quantitative scientists interfere in the humanities Kierkegaard’s ways to be human Crispr gene editing may one day … [Read more...] about CPN Digest #30
What is the biomedical model #3
Over the last few weeks, we’ve been running a series of blog posts on the biomedical model. Biomedicine is, without doubt, one of the most powerful discourse affecting the way physiotherapists think and practice, but it is also rarely explained or explored. So over the next few blog posts I’ll be unpacking its essential features. The first two posts in the series focused on specific aetiology and germ theory. In this post, we’re going to tackle Cartesian Dualism. Cartesian Dualism gets it’s name from the work of the French skeptical philosopher Rene Descartes (1596-1650) who, perhaps more than anyone, captured the zeitgeist of the Renaissance by defining a distinction between the mind … [Read more...] about What is the biomedical model #3
CPN Digest #29
Something for the weekend: What's 'critical' about critical physiotherapy? How the idea of the straight, white, muscular male body shaped America Shortage of GPs will never end. Physiotherapy can help If we want (NHS) staff to care for us, we need to care for them Finally, people with disabilities will have a chance to tell their stories – and be believed Subjects of study and students with disabilities What are critical thinking skills? Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Primary Care There Is No Brain: Rethinking Neuroscience through a Nomadic Ontology Scientists rise up against statistical significance Obituary: Mary Warnock, philosopher and … [Read more...] about CPN Digest #29
A thank you from the CPN Executive
The CPN Executive met for the second time this year. Among other things we discussed the first Critical Physiotherapy Course, which kicked off with David Nicholls on The Architecture of Movement a few weeks ago. The course will have six more talks from six very exciting critical thinkers. We were impressed by the conversation that followed David’s talk. The success of the first session gives us hope that the course will spark innovative critical models for future physiotherapy. The recordings will also make a valuable archive of Critical Physiotherapy. The Executive would like to thank Tobba Sudmann for her superb chairing of the first session. The session would not have ran so … [Read more...] about A thank you from the CPN Executive
What is the biomedical model #2
A couple of weeks ago, I posted the first of a series of short critical summaries of the biomedical model. The biomedical model is perhaps one of the most important theories underpinning physiotherapy, and yet it is rarely taught overtly in the physiotherapy curriculum. Clinicians don’t see it hiding behind their assessments and diagnoses. They don’t see it underpinning most of the treatments. And they don’t recognise it as a key driver of the kind of knowledge we accept to be true and false. So having a better understanding of how the biomedical model works would seem like a good idea. In the first post of the series, I briefly wrote about specific aetiology and the idea that one of … [Read more...] about What is the biomedical model #2
Notes from 2nd Critical Physiotherapy Course – What’s “critical” about critical physiotherapy? with Anna Rajala
Huge thanks to Anna for a fabulous 2nd Critical Physiotherapy Course talk. Here you can find the abstract, PowerPoint slides, audio and chat feed from the talk. Abstract | Link to audio file | PowerPoint presentation | Chat Our next session will be just before the Easter Holidays at 20:00 GMT on Thursday 18th April. It will be led by Gail Teachman and titled The End of Inclusion? Thinking beyond 'inclusion' with Bourdieu. A link to the talk and more information will follow a couple of weeks ahead of the event. … [Read more...] about Notes from 2nd Critical Physiotherapy Course – What’s “critical” about critical physiotherapy? with Anna Rajala
CPN Digest #28
Something for the weekend: Prosthetic design between aesthetics and functionality Researching embodied relationships with place Michel Foucault: Arch-leftist or subversive conservative? From Marx to Foucault, via Althusser Careful how you treat today’s AI: it might take revenge in the future Trialling technologies to reduce hospital in‐patient falls: an agential realist analysis Military‐style fitness boot camps: contested resources in accounting for fatness On the body of the consumer: performance‐seeking with wearables and health and fitness apps Recruiting and Retaining People With Disabilities for Qualitative Health Research The Lived Experience of People … [Read more...] about CPN Digest #28