MECHANICAL MEDICINE Exploring the History of Healing by Exercise, Manipulation and Massage. 23 May 2019, Science Museum, London. A symposium at the Science Museum, London, organised by Dr Kay Nias (Medicine Galleries Research Fellow). ‘Physical medicine’ or ‘physical therapy’ has ancient origins. For thousands of years, people with illnesses and disabilities have been treated with physio-therapeutic techniques including exercise, manipulation and massage, as well as air, water, heat and cold, electricity and light. These various healing methods have rich and diverse histories that span time, cultures and medical traditions. While documentary evidence representing the … [Read more...] about Call for Papers: Mechanical medicine – Exploring the History of Healing by Exercise, Manipulation and Massage.
The first Critical Physiotherapy Course session starts in 2 weeks
The first of our Critical Physiotherapy Course sessions titled The architecture of Movement will be running in just 2 weeks time. The times for various locations around the world are listed below. Location Local Time Time Zone UTC Offset Auckland (New Zealand - Auckland) Thursday, 21 February 2019 at 8:00:00 a.m. NZDT UTC+13 hours London (United Kingdom - England) Wednesday, 20 February 2019 at 7:00:00 p.m. GMT UTC New York (USA - New York) Wednesday, 20 February 2019 at 2:00:00 p.m. EST UTC-5 hours Los Angeles (USA - California) Wednesday, 20 February 2019 at 11:00:00 a.m. PST UTC-8 hours Berlin (Germany - Berlin) Wednesday, 20 February … [Read more...] about The first Critical Physiotherapy Course session starts in 2 weeks
Experiments in Physiotherapy Education – Unconference #1
To coincide with this year's WCPT Congress in Geneva, Michael Rowe, Ben Ellis, and the rest of our good friends at InBeta will be hosting the first In Beta Experiments in Physiotherapy Education Unconference on the 14th and 15th May 2019 at Haute Ecole de Santé Vaud (HESAV) in Lausanne, Switzerland. The idea is to break away from the traditional conference format and try something new. At a traditional conference, the programme is designed in advance and the only choices you have are which pre-prepared sessions you attend. A bit like going to a restaurant with a set menu. But sometimes you just want to get a few friends around the barbeque and cook whatever people bring. This is an … [Read more...] about Experiments in Physiotherapy Education – Unconference #1
CPN Digest #21
Something for the weekend: Experiments in Physiotherapy Education Unconference #1 (announcement) Philosophy must be useful (magazine) Abstracts, Oral Presentations for Qualitative Health Research Conference, 2018 (pdf) Richard Rorty on the future of philosophy (podcast) Deleuze and the Humanities edited by Rosi Braidotti (book) van Manen's phenomenology of practice (article) I Am a Professor in a Movie (blog) Muscle memory discovery ends 'use it or lose it' dogma (magazine) First paralyzed human treated with stem cells has now regained upper body movement (magazine) Once Upon a Time There Was a Virus…Storytelling, Health and Illness (conference) Research … [Read more...] about CPN Digest #21
The End of Physiotherapy will soon be in paperback (and much cheaper!)
I'm very pleased to say that a paperback version of The End of Physiotherapy will be available from late March for £36.99. The only paper version of the book in print until now has been in hardback, which was priced by Routledge for institutions rather than for individual readers. That meant to read the book you had to borrow one from your library or download the eBook version, which doesn't suit everyone. And yet sales of the book have been amazing, so I'm very grateful to those of you who have read it and given me such lovely feedback. Here's one of the opening sections to the book, and as you can see, it was always my intention that the book should be read widely; Many … [Read more...] about The End of Physiotherapy will soon be in paperback (and much cheaper!)
CPN Digest #20
Something for the weekend: On the value of truth (magazine) Online guides to writing a philosophy paper (blog) Regular education #chats on Twitter (resource) The replication crisis is killing psychologists’ theory of how the body influences the mind (magazine) Critical Histories of Aging and Later Life - Radical History Review (call for proposals) Philosophy can make the previously unthinkable thinkable (magazine) "We can do great things together, though it sometimes means circumventing the very disciplinary structures that keep us separated and wary of collaboration" (podcast) Action not words needed over biggest public health failure of our time: pneumonia … [Read more...] about CPN Digest #20
Interview with Gloria Teresa Zapata
This interview with Gloria Zapata was compiled and translated by CPN Exec member Viviana Silva You were the director of the research area called “kinesiology of human development” at the National University of Colombia. Could you please tell us how this interest was born and how your experience or education influenced your research? My interest in the research area of “kinesiology of human development” arose in relation to my experience as a teacher in the National University of Colombia between the years of 1986-2006. This time was marked by the need to reform the curricular program of the profession to favour training of physiotherapists to become more committed to improving … [Read more...] about Interview with Gloria Teresa Zapata