1. Fue directora de la línea de investigación kinesiología del desarrollo en la Universidad Nacional. ¿Podrías decirnos como nació el interés en este tema y como tu (experiencia o tu educación o ...) influencio tu investigación? y como influencio tu interés en el manejo de pacientes con demencia? Mi interés por la línea de investigación y profundización en kinesiología del desarrollo, surgió en relación con la oportunidad que tuve de estar vinculada como docente en la UN, durante un período (1986-2006) marcado por la necesidad de reformar el programa curricular de la carrera de manera tal que se favoreciera la formación de fisioterapeutas más comprometidos con la mejora de la … [Read more...] about Gloria Teresa Zapata – Fisioterapeuta
Announcing the 2019 Critical Physiotherapy Course
After 12 months of planning and preparation, the first ever Critical Physiotherapy Course comes to life in February. Run once a month over six months, the course highlights some of the most interesting new ideas in physiotherapy and features some of the CPNs most innovative thinkers. Programme 21 Feb Dave Nicholls - The architecture of movement 21 March Anna Rajala - What's "critical" about critical physiotherapy? Max Horkheimer and the idea of Critical Theory 18 April Gail Teachman - The End of Inclusion? Thinking beyond 'inclusion' with Bourdieu 23 May Patty Thille - What does it mean to care? Thinking with Annemarie Mol 20 June Tobba Sudmann - How to understand … [Read more...] about Announcing the 2019 Critical Physiotherapy Course
CPN Digest #19
Something for the New Year: 24 cognitive biases that are warping your perception of reality (blog) - thanks Catherine The redundancy of positivism as a paradigm for nursing research (article) Middle‐range theories as models: New criteria for analysis and evaluation (article) Rhizomatic Learning – a somewhat curious introduction (blog) Touch and Affect: Analysing the Archive of Touch Biographies (article) Predatory War, Drones and Torture: Remapping the Body in Pain (article) Graduates in health-related courses fare the best (magazine) Threats to embodied well-being: An exploration of how disabled people negotiate barriers in hospital settings (article) ‘I like … [Read more...] about CPN Digest #19
Is physiotherapy a bullshit job?
On January 1st I left my three-year secondment looking after a team of psychology and psychotherapy lecturers and returned to my old home in the clinical sciences. And a big part of my new work will be trying to prepare our graduates for a future that is increasingly uncertain and unfamiliar. For some years now, there's been an increasing interest in the future of professions like law, accountancy, journalism, and medicine, with a whole swathe of books being published recently trying to anticipate how we'll need to adapt to the rapid rise of digital technologies. There is little doubt that artificial intelligence, automation, machine learning, and robotics are going to radically … [Read more...] about Is physiotherapy a bullshit job?
CPN Digest #18
Something for the holidays: To treat pain, study people in all their complexity (blog) Obvious Signs That Humanity Is Regressing (blog) Medical Metaphors: The Long History of the Corrupted Body Politic (blog) Class‐based masculinity, cardiovascular health and rehabilitation (article) Health Care Professionalism Without Doctors (article) Twenty-One Thinkers for the Twenty-First Century (podcast) How much physical activity should teenagers do, and how can they get enough? (magazine) Interview with Shelley Tremain on Foucault and Feminist Philosophy of Disability (podcast) Becoming friends with theory (blog) The integration of evidence from the Commission on … [Read more...] about CPN Digest #18
CPN Digest #17
Something for the weekend: The human body in the age of catastrophe (podcast) Enlightenment skepticism and the birth of the human sciences (blog) Women chiropractors and WWI (blog) Against ‘Aging’ – How to Talk about Growing Older (article) A new healthcare business model (blog) Embodiment in High-altitude Mountaineering: Sensing and Working with the Weather (article) Neurological disorders like motor neuron, stroke, and Parkinson’s are the leading cause of disability worldwide (magazine) Complaints over social care in England nearly trebled since 2010 (magazine) Imperfect Perfection and Wheelchair Bodybuilding: Challenging Ableism or Reproducing Normalcy? … [Read more...] about CPN Digest #17
CPN Digest #16
Something for the weekend: Humans vs machines (magazine) Managing Stigma: Young People, Asthma, and the Politics of Chronic Illness (article) “Battalion of Life”: American Women’s Hospitals and the First World War (blog) Ethnography, multimodality and walking (article) Bullshit jobs (blog) Private physio practice is star of Samsung advert (blog) Frameworks and research/practice thinking (blog) Medical scientists and philosophers worldwide appeal to EBM to expand the notion of ‘evidence’ - with a special mention for Rani Lill Anjum who is co-editing our upcoming 2nd CPN book (article) Sci-fi needs to overcome its poor history with disabled people (magazine) … [Read more...] about CPN Digest #16