Marcum, J.A. (2013). The Role of Emotions in Clinical Reasoning and Decision Making. J Med Philos (2013) 38 (5): 501-519. doi: 10.1093/jmp/jht040. First published online: August 24, 2013. Abstract What role, if any, should emotions play in clinical reasoning and decision making? Traditionally, emotions have been excluded from clinical reasoning and decision making, but with recent advances in cognitive neuropsychology they are now considered an important component of them. Today, cognition is thought to be a set of complex processes relying on multiple types of intelligences. The role of mathematical logic (hypothetico-deductive thinking) or verbal linguistic intelligence in … [Read more...] about Marcum JA (2013) The Role of Emotions in Clinical Reasoning and Decision Making. J Med Philos (2013) 38 (5): 501-519
Bodies-as-machines / post-humans / skull-candy
What would it be like to have a device osteointegrated into your skull to convert light into sound? Well now you can find out. There has been a lot of discussion of cyborg culture over the years and this piece from Sally Davis in the gorgeous on-line magazine/blog Nautilus (http://nautil.us/) is well worth a read. Cyborgs and the culture of the post-human is nothing new of course. In many ways physiotherapists have been involved for years in aids and adaptations that help people move and function. The key difference here is that post-human culture is getting people to move their thinking away from the use of technologies as adaptations to make up for some sort of loss, to … [Read more...] about Bodies-as-machines / post-humans / skull-candy
Zachariah A et al (2013) ‘Towards a critical medical practice: reflections on the dilemmas of medical culture today’
A recent book review for a book titled 'Towards a Critical Medical Practice: Reflections on the Dilemmas of Medical Culture Today' made me reflect on one of the prevailing questions facing physiotherapy in the 21st century. The review said this: The study of the postcolonial Indian healthcare system with its manifold sociocultural complexities and incongruities offers rich cross-cultural perspectives; the interplay between the legacies of colonialism and the shifting priorities of a vibrant but bureaucratically entrenched state apparatus reveals that it has over the decades succumbed to pressures from neo-liberalism and the free market, and that its initial commitments to providing care … [Read more...] about Zachariah A et al (2013) ‘Towards a critical medical practice: reflections on the dilemmas of medical culture today’
Dreyfus H & Kelly SD (2011) All things shining: reading the Western Classics to find meaning in a secular age. New York; Free Press
Over the southern hemisphere summer, when things go a bit quieter at Uni (and for those of you who think we all get 3 months holiday, let me tell you I had 20 minutes off on Christmas morning!) one of my favourite things to do is to read something big...something that's going to take my brain to the gymnasium in a way that endless emails just don't do. Two years ago I read Erin Manning's astonishing book 'Relationscapes' which is the work of an astonishing mind and still gives me goose-bumps. Last year I read Deleuze and Guattari's 'A Thousand Plateaus' (well I say I read it...I read a page or two then went for a lie down!) This year I've been prompted into thinking about philosophy … [Read more...] about Dreyfus H & Kelly SD (2011) All things shining: reading the Western Classics to find meaning in a secular age. New York; Free Press
2013…the year of social media
So I've decided to make 2013 the year of social media for me. Reading some of Debbie Lupton's media work I was inspired to think that this might be a great way to a) develop some interesting collaborations with like-minded people around the globe (too ambitious?) b) organise what is becoming a plethora of on-line media resources into something that is both useful and interesting to me, and c) explore some of the creative thinking that's now all over the web. So I'm starting by picking some key social media resources and throwing myself into using them. I'm going to commit to: This Wordpress blog My Facebook page for keeping in touch with family and friends and posting about … [Read more...] about 2013…the year of social media
Revolution in Education
I've just finished a piece for the PNZ newsletter on some new ways of thinking in education and how they might affect physiotherapy education. If you fancy a read, I'd appreciate any feedback. Digital media and the future of physiotherapy knowledge In 1534, at the age of 51, Martin Luther translated the bible from Latin – a language that few outside the priesthood could understand – into a form that could be read by the common people. Thus began the Protestant Reformation and more than four centuries of schism between the Protestant and Catholic churches. None of this would have been possible had it not been for Gutenberg’s invention of the printing press, which made the … [Read more...] about Revolution in Education
