Something for the weekend: Digital diagnosis: How your smartphone or wearable device could forecast illness (magazine) The Mindful Body: A Phenomenology of the Body With Multiple Sclerosis (article) The Future of Healthcare: The Impact of Digitalization on Healthcare Services Performance (chapter) Digital health – a new medical cosmology? The case of 23andMe online genetic testing platform (article) The further future of healthcare (blog) Relax. Do nothing. Become no one - the philosophy of Byung-Chul Han (magazine) Early Career Researcher Advice Article of the Week: Five benefits of a writing ‘system’ by Chris Smith (blog) Mobility and participation among ageing … [Read more...] about CPN Digest #12
Lessons learned from leaving physiotherapy
Three years ago I stepped away from my teaching job in the physiotherapy programme here at AUT University, in Auckland, New Zealand, to manage a team of psychology and psychotherapy lecturers and researchers. The secondment comes to an end in a few weeks time and it's given me an opportunity to reflect on what it's like working with people who think and work completely differently to physios. The first thing that struck me about my time with the 'psy' disciplines is how little time physios actually spend thinking about what they do. Personal therapy and supervision are absolutely intrinsic to the profession, and no-one here believes that you can be a mindful practitioner without also … [Read more...] about Lessons learned from leaving physiotherapy
CPN Digest #11
Something for the weekend: Building healthy this, and this (magazine, event) Work was once the way to a better life. Not any more (magazine) Waiting for better care: why Australia’s hospitals and health care is failing (blog) Gender Bias, Medical Sexism, and Women’s Encounters with Modern Medicine (blog) Three books on the brain (article) The Power of the Researcher's Body, Emotions, and Identities in Ethnography (article) Going a Long Way in a Wheelchair (blog) Learning to Be Old: How Qualitative Research Contributes to Our Understanding of Ageism (article) A call to include art in pre-med education (blog) It’s dangerous to think virtual reality is an empathy … [Read more...] about CPN Digest #11
Innovation
We're coming to the end of a long academic year in New Zealand, so that means lots of examination and assessment of nervous students. This time last year I took over a postgraduate paper called Health Professional Practice with a view to 'reshaping' it. For years it had been delivered in a standard fashion: block study, lots of lectures and tutorials - mostly directed at students rather than engaging them, boring assessments. I decided to shake things up a bit. The paper needed to be much more about what made the students 'tick' as health professionals; their experiences, ideas and issues. But it also needed to get them to critically examine their professions in ways they hadn't … [Read more...] about Innovation
CPN Digest #10
Something for the weekend: “It’s Hard Work”: A Feminist Political Economy Approach to Reconceptualizing “Work” in the Cancer Context (article) E-Learning 3.0 from Stephen Downes (presentation) Transforming Science Education for the Anthropocene—Is It Possible? (article) How an industry shifted from protecting patients to seeking profit (magazine) Gamified life: From scoreboards to trackers, games have infiltrated work, serving as spies, overseers and agents of social control (magazine) Teaching how to work in 21st century (p.5) (magazine) Australia's toxic medical culture (book) Rembis on Hanes and Brown and Hansen, 'The Routledge History of Disability' (book … [Read more...] about CPN Digest #10
Open Physio online journal open for business
A radical new adventure in physiotherapy research publication was launched recently, and would be a fabulous vehicle for publishing for people in and around the Critical Physiotherapy Network. The OpenPhysio journal is the brainchild of A/Prof Michael Rowe, CPN Exec member and lecturer at the University of the Western Cape in South Africa. Supported by Physio-pedia, the journal is different to any journal you have probably ever seen before. Research is published immediately, with no delay for administration or peer approval. Peer review is open to everyone and all feedback is collaborative. Responses are published alongside the finished article and represent their own citable … [Read more...] about Open Physio online journal open for business
CPN Digest #9
Something for the weekend: Unlearning Expertise Knowledge and Unsettling Expertise Positions (magazine) Diagnosing the past (magazine) The peculiar history of surgical gloves (blog) Using photography to enhance GP trainees’ reflective practice and professional development (podcast) What were the top tools for learning in 2018? (blog) Four lessons for Australia from England's system of rating its aged care homes (magazine) Health care is getting cheaper (unless you need a specialist, or a dentist) (magazine) Far right, misogynist, humourless? Why Nietzsche is misunderstood (magazine) Aging in twenthieth-century Britain (podcast) Tensions Living Out Professional … [Read more...] about CPN Digest #9