This new book, which is available here, has just been produced by long-time CPN member Professor Franziska Trede in collaboration with Dr Celina McEwen from The Education for Practice Institute at Charles Sturt University (CSU). The book examines how the role and identity of universities are increasingly affected by current worldwide social trends towards globalisation, digitalisation, and an emphasis on individualism. Professor Trede, Co-Director of the Institute, said these changes have led to universities being positioned in a force field of competing interests, and the book discusses growing global trends and their associated tighter connections between university education and the … [Read more...] about Educating the deliberate professional – new book from CPN members
El resquebrajamiento de la division discapacidad/normalidad
un blog escrito por A/Prof Barbara Gibson traduccion por Viviana Silva Guerrera (muchas gracias!!) Mi nuevo libro Rehabilitation: A post-critical approach (Rehabilitación: Un enfoque post-crítico) fue escrito para ayudar a los estudiantes de rehabilitación y practicantes a hacer vínculos entre la investigación crítica y lo que podría significar para la práctica. Un capítulo clave en el libro explora la forma como sociedad pensamos en "normalidad" como un estado preferido del ser, y cómo esto lo llevamos encima en nuestras prácticas de rehabilitación. Aquí proporciono una visión general de esta discusión. La normalización de las prácticas en la rehabilitación ayudan a sostener las … [Read more...] about El resquebrajamiento de la division discapacidad/normalidad
Disrupting the Disabled/Normal Divide
blog post by A/Prof Barbara Gibson My new book Rehabilitation: A Post-critical Approach was written to help rehabilitation students and practitioners make the links between the critical scholarship and what it might mean for practice. A key chapter in the book explores how as a society we think about ‘normal’ as a preferred state of being, and how this is carried over into our rehabilitation practices. Here I provide an overview of this discussion. Normalizing practices in rehabilitation help sustain negative attitudes towards disabled people and deny the richness of human diversity. In making this somewhat provocative statement my purpose is not to suggest that all rehabilitation … [Read more...] about Disrupting the Disabled/Normal Divide
New: Archiving
A few weeks ago, Verity Burke from the blog Science book a day posted a list of 10 Great Books on the History of Medicine. Here is the list: Morbid Curiosities: Medical Museums in Nineteenth-Century Britain. Samuel J.M.M. Alberti (Oxford University Press, 2011) The Morbid Anatomy Anthology, ed. Joanna Ebenstein and Colin Dickey (Morbid Anatomy Press, 2014) The Sick Rose: Or, Disease and the Art of Medical Illustration. Richard Barnett (Thames and Hudson, 2014) Human Anatomy: Depicting the Body from the Renaissance to Today, eds. Benjamin A. Rifkin, Michael J. Akerman and Judith Folkenberg (Thames and Hudson, 2011) Women under the Knife. Ann Dally (Hutchinson Radiance, … [Read more...] about New: Archiving
Foucault and the Government of Disability (2015)
An excellent text with four new chapters tackling a wide range of critical questions in disability studies. … [Read more...] about Foucault and the Government of Disability (2015)
The truth of movement in sculpture
An except from Virilio, P. (1994). The Vision Machine. (Trans. Julie Rose). Bloomington, Il; Indiana University Press, pp. 1-2. 'The arts require witnesses,' Marmontel once said. A century later Auguste Rodin asserted that it is the visible world that demands to be revealed by means other than the latent images of the phototype. In the course of his famous conversations with the sculptor, Paul Gsell remarked, apropos Rodin's 'The Age of Bronze' [available to view here] and 'St John the Baptist' [available to view here] , 'I am still left wondering how those great lumps of bronze or stone actually seem to move, how obviously immobile figures appear to act and even to be making pretty … [Read more...] about The truth of movement in sculpture
Interviewing women: A contradiction in terms
Many years ago I read a book chapter that would have a profound effect on how I thought about my practice as a health professional, and dramatically shape the future direction for my research and the way I thought about the world generally. That chapter was titled Interviewing women: A contradiction in terms and it was written by Anne Oakley. Oakley has just published a follow up paper titled Interviewing Women Again: Power, Time and the Gift, and reading it reminded me why it had such a profound impact on me 20 years ago. In the early 1990s I was working at The Children's Hospital in Birmingham (UK) and studying a masters degree in research methodology. The degree was life-changing. … [Read more...] about Interviewing women: A contradiction in terms