Whereas pain had previously been seen as an essential element of the human condition, from the middle of the eighteenth century humanitarians worked to alleviate pain and suffering where possible--especially when that bodily experience was produced or inflicted by various "social evils" (ranging form alcohol to the excesses of the industrial system) or unjust laws.Ballantyne, T. (2014). Entanglements of Empire: Missionaries, Māori, and the question of the body. Auckland, NZ: Auckland University Press. p. 218 One of the reasons why pain has been so has been so important in defining physiotherapy over the last century is that it is both universal and particular. Pain is experienced by … [Read more...] about The reality of pain
CPN Digest #130
Something for the weekend: Coronavirus biopolitics: the paradox of France’s Foucauldian heritageAn interactive teaching module for increasing undergraduate physiotherapy students' cultural competence: A quantitative surveyThe problem with predictionLearning from a situation of discomfort – a qualitative study of physiotherapy student practice in mental healthYour Body, Your Self, Your Surgeon, His InstagramPhysiotherapy students' self‐assessment of performance—Are there gender differences in self‐assessment accuracy?Patient values in physiotherapy practice, a qualitative studyThe State of Mobile Internet Connectivity 2020Accessing healthcare as a person with a rugby-related spinal cord … [Read more...] about CPN Digest #130
CPN Digest #129
Something for the weekend: Helen Keller Conspiracy Theories Are Awash With Ableism“Moving Worlds” Special Issue on Literature, Medicine, HealthMy Research Is My Story: A Methodological Framework of Inquiry Told Through Storytelling by a Doctor of Philosophy StudentThe Model Of Becoming Aware: disabled subjectivities, policy enactment and new exclusions in higher educationA longitudinal, narrative study of professional socialisation among health students (incl physiotherapists)Whether a crisis of public health or public safety, is the best response increased surveillance?Is there a philosophy of neuroscience?Why Does Scientific Fraud Happen, and what would W. E. B. du Bois do about it?All … [Read more...] about CPN Digest #129
Measuring physiotherapy
Why is it that physiotherapists measure things? Over the last few weeks I’ve talked with some physio colleagues about their work, and been struck by the way they are asking some pretty fundamental questions about physiotherapy. One conversation revolved around the trend towards active treatment and patient self-management. “Why is it”, this colleague asked, “that some physios are giving up on so-called passive treatments? If we were artists, we wouldn’t give up on painting just because the latest trend was for video installations.” Is it because physiotherapists have come to believe their job is to ‘fix’ things in a way that artists never do? There seems to be a lot of hubris and … [Read more...] about Measuring physiotherapy
CPN Digest #128
Something for the weekend: Pedagogy of the Oppressed: Design Theory For Our FuturesWhat is it like to be a philosopher?The Explorative Nature of Heideggerian LogicWhy we need to diversify expertiseThorstein Veblen and the Myth of the Academic OutsiderHospitals without walls: The future of healthcareThe dark matter of digital healthPhysical Therapy in the Time of Pandemic: Then and NowSpecial Issue: Global Perspectives on the Post-Qualitative Turn in Qualitative InquiryThe Scientific Method: An Evolution of Thinking from Darwin to Dewey100 Years of Optimizing MovementWhither medical professionalismIs resilience a unique extension rather than a rejection of neoliberalism?The crisis in … [Read more...] about CPN Digest #128
Doing too much
A recent short paper in the journal Sociology of Health & Illnesshas offered some important insights into overdiagnosis and overtreatment (Armstrong, 2021). For some years now, health service managers have argued that there is ‘too much medicine’ in healthcare, and have used the language of cost containment and ‘Choosing wisely’ to increase professional accountability. But health professionals have themselves been concerned with too much reliance on expert advice, and have criticised other competing professions for encouraging patients’ dependence on the therapist for the cure (Traeger et al., 2017; Baldwin et al., 2015; Copnell, 2018). What’s really interesting about the … [Read more...] about Doing too much
CPN Digest #127
Something for the weekend: Integrating the arts and humanities into nursingSearching for Consolation in Max Weber’s Work Ethic‘My Master and Friend’: Social Networks and Professional Identity in American Medicine, 1789–1815CfP: International Society of Critical health Psychology conference (Jenny Setchell hosting Australian hub)Treating gynecological pain: key factors in promoting body awareness and movement in somatocognitive therapy (SCT)Phenomenology and hermeneutics as a basis for sensitivity within health careMusculoskeletal Physical Therapy After COVID-19: Time for a New “Normal”Baby walkers through historyThe professional development and career journey into musculoskeletal first … [Read more...] about CPN Digest #127