Here you can find all the resources from last week's Critical Physiotherapy Course seminar run by Tobba Sudmann. Tobba's talk was titled 'How to understand disability? On the making of disability though discourse, materiality and practice'. A huge thank you (again) to Tobba for her superb seminar. We had another really great turnout, and some inspiring new ideas. AbstractDownload PowerPoint slidesDownload Audio recording (link) Online chat from meetingDownload … [Read more...] about Resources for 5th Critical Physiotherapy Course
XIII International Workshop Science, Technology and Gender (English/Spanish)
Health, public involvement, and gender: new voices, knowledges and practices Madrid, 21-23rd October 2019 The project Multiple voices, plural knowledges and biomedical technologies (MINECO:FFI2015-65947-C2 -1-P) invites contributions for the XIII International Workshop on Science, Technology and Gender to debate how public involvement (PPI) and gender are important to improvehealth and wellbeing and reduce health inequalities. The synergy between PPI and gender can make a difference to key issues in the fields of healthcare and research such as naming andframing of health problems; design of policy, services and governance plans; provision of health and social care; improving the … [Read more...] about XIII International Workshop Science, Technology and Gender (English/Spanish)
CPN Digest #40
Something for the weekend: Sporting Activities for Individuals Who Experienced Trauma During Their Youth: A Meta-Study It’s perfectly legal for doctors to charge huge amounts for surgery, but should it be allowed? Terry Eagleton on The History of Philosophy by AC Grayling The dancing species: how moving together in time helps make us human Robots aren’t coming for your job ... management is The Biopsychosocial Model of Health and Disease: New Philosophical and Scientific Developments Foucault on painting Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and an Illness-Focused Approach to Care: Controversy, Morality, and Paradox Diversity Is Not Just About the Differences We Like Wrapping up the … [Read more...] about CPN Digest #40
Critique of the biomedical model #4 – Standard Deviation
In many ways, the entire Western healthcare system is built around normalisation. The fact that it is the job of ‘the system’, and all those that work within it, to identify those people who are ill, sick, or suffering, and to offer them a cure, is so deeply entrenched in the way health services work that it would be hard to imagine it otherwise. But imagine it otherwise we must, or else the more problematic aspects of the approach remain hidden. Firstly, we should remember that normalisation is a social construct. What this means is that there is no object that you can point to to say “that is normalisation right there”. It is an idea; an invention, based on a set of principles that … [Read more...] about Critique of the biomedical model #4 – Standard Deviation
CPN Digest #39
Something for the weekend: In Strangers’ Hands: Thai Massage Services in SloveniaExistential comics: Wittgenstein17 quotes to help with criticismCommon worlds research collectiveGood Posture Matters Even More Than You ThinkTherapy the Natural Way: A Realist Exploration of the Wilderness Therapy Treatment ProcessDifference Within and Without: Health Care Providers’ Engagement With Disability ArtsCfP: Freedom, work and organizations in the 21st centuryUnderdogs breaking the rulesProprioception of the Hand: Stelarc’s Object-Oriented RelationsResearch Fellow in Biomedicine, Self and Society: Beyond BodiesDisability, Normalcy, and the EverydayMilitary‐style fitness boot camps: contested … [Read more...] about CPN Digest #39
Critique of the biomedical model #3 (or what it really means to be a person)
Physiotherapy, and biomedicine generally, owes a lot to René Descartes (for a refresher on an earlier post on the critical issue of Cartesian Dualism in PT, go here). But Descartes’ influence extends much further than just the body-as-machine, and has fundamentally shaped medicine and physiotherapy practice ethics for more than 100 years. 400 years ago, Descartes set out to discover what could be known beyond doubt. His method was to doubt everything, from the existence of physical objects around him, to dreams and ideas. What was left, he surmised, would be the basis upon which all knowledge could be built. The first thing Descartes believed he could trust was that he himself was … [Read more...] about Critique of the biomedical model #3 (or what it really means to be a person)
The 5th critical physiotherapy course is next week: Tobba Sudmann on ‘How to understand disability’
The 5th in our 2019 series of Critical Physiotherapy Courses will be led by Tobba Sudmann, Physiotherapist and Professor of Public Health at the Centre for Care Research, Western Norway University of Applied Sciences. The session is titled 'How to understand disability? On the making of disability though discourse, materiality and practice'. As always, the session is free, all you need to do is click on the link below at the time of the meeting to listen in. Zoom link: https://aut.zoom.us/j/408228596 Session times around the world for 5th Critical Physiotherapy Course session Abstract This session will show how the phenomenon ‘disability’ is created through our modern … [Read more...] about The 5th critical physiotherapy course is next week: Tobba Sudmann on ‘How to understand disability’
