Something for the weekend: WCPT Congress 2021 goes onlineRacism in European Health Care: Structural Violence and BeyondCreative Subversion: Staking a Claim for Critical Qualitative InquiryIn praise of doubt: we should be less sure about everything. Right?“Using no way as way; having no limitation as limitation”The fist of modernityWhat is decolonisation? and thisCollaboration made easy: 6 ways to build a writing relationship“Philosophy as a Method”: Tracing the Histories of Intersections of “Philosophy,” “Methodology,” and “Education”The Unfinished Project of EnlightenmentThe Scientific Method: An Evolution of Thinking from Darwin to DeweyRacism, Hazing And Other Abuse Taints Medical … [Read more...] about CPN Digest #101
CPN Online Workshop: Coming face to face with our racism in physiotherapy
This online workshop has been compiled and organised by CPN member Louie Howie in collaboration with colleagues Ciara Hughes and Scarlet Sumagr. It is on Wednesday 2nd Sept 2020 at 7pm UK time. See below for full details, times and the meeting link. This workshop is designed for White physiotherapists who have a willingness to progress in their anti-racism journey and to lean in to some discomfort in a supportive environment. It offers a frame and a set of practices to help them understand their own blocks and better support non-White patients in a non-dehumanising way. These practices would also be useful for White people working to support moves toward workforce racial … [Read more...] about CPN Online Workshop: Coming face to face with our racism in physiotherapy
The 4th free, online critical physiotherapy course is THIS WEEK
This session will dig deep into Patty Thille, Arthur Frank, and Tobba Sudmann's chapter for the upcoming book Mobilizing knowledge, due out in October/November.Patty, Arthur and Tobba have written the stories to accompany their talk, which reflect the work they did in their book chapter. Here is the abstract: As physiotherapists practice their clinical work, what presuppositions guide, and sometimes limit their thinking? We approach professional knowledge not as abstract scientific facts, but rather as embodied knowledge, situated in context. Gabbay and le May (2011) call this understanding of knowledge ‘mindlines’. Embodied mindlines direct what a professional considers … [Read more...] about The 4th free, online critical physiotherapy course is THIS WEEK
CPN Digest #100
A special bumper centenary something for the weekend: Black people were losing limbs at triple the rate of othersWhat to Expect When a Coronavirus Vaccine Finally Arrives (Sobering lessons from the history of the polio vaccine)Nearly Half Of Accounts Tweeting About Coronavirus Are Likely BotsShould anyone care about scientific progress?Women’s Sexuality, Medical Science, and Networked Discourses of HealthCare organising technologies and the post-phenomenology of careThe biopsychosocial model 40 years onNew Publication - Disabled Futures: A Framework for Radical InclusionThis Is What It Was Like To Go To The Hospital (in America) 100 Years AgoShould trans people be postmodernist in the … [Read more...] about CPN Digest #100
Physiotherapy students at The National University of Colombia go on hunger strike
"This is a framework of reality for public university students from poor countries facing the pandemic, in ignorance of who their students were, are, and will no longer be. Today on hunger strike !!!" Aydee Luisa Robayo, CPN Exec member and Associate Professor in the Facultad de Medicina, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, told us yesterday of the dire situation now facing students and staff in her faculty. Students have begun a hunger strike to protest the impossibility of paying their fees for the next academic period. All clinical practices have closed and, as Aydee says, COVID has revealed: "the false mirage of telerehabilitation as an option to continue in daily life, the one … [Read more...] about Physiotherapy students at The National University of Colombia go on hunger strike
Links to the 2019 Critical Physio Course talk by Patty Thille
In preparation for our next Critical Physiotherapy Course featuring Patty Thille, Tobba Sudmann and Arthur Frank, here's Patty's talk from 2019, title What does it mean to care? (Note, if you have any problems viewing the videos directly through the site, they will work fully on Chrome or Firefox browsers). … [Read more...] about Links to the 2019 Critical Physio Course talk by Patty Thille
CPN Digest #99
Something for the weekend: Air care: an ‘aerography’ of breath, buildings and bugs in the cystic fibrosis clinicMiss hugs? Touch forms bonds and boosts immune systems. Here’s how to cope without it during coronavirusWhence Heidegger’s Phenomenology?“Why is everyone talking about Michel Foucault these days?”The Amish healthcare system - the best in AmericaPhenomenology of online spacesThe Reception of Husserlian Phenomenology in North AmericaDis/ability-producing technology assemblages and networks at the workplace‘A Little Time Woud Compleat the Cure’: Broken Bones and Fracture Experiences of the Working Poor in London’s General Hospitals During the Long Eighteenth CenturyThe new Journal … [Read more...] about CPN Digest #99
