Something for the weekend: Midwives, Nurse Practitioners, and the Physicians Who (Still) Find Them ThreateningThinking with autoethnography in collaborative research: A critical, reflexive approach to relational ethicsHearing Gloves and Seeing Tongues? Disability, Sensory Substitution and the Origins of the Neuroplastic SubjectExoskeletons, Rehabilitation and Bodily CapacitiesSartre on the Body in “Being and Nothingness”Humility in health care: A modelHealth Promotion Practice podcast collectionTracking towards care: Relational affordances of self-tracking in gym cultureEthnography in Health Services Research: Oscillation Between Theory and PracticeSpare Rib, The British Women’s Health … [Read more...] about CPN Digest #156
Ralph Hammond – 30DoS – Day 3
My interest in critical physiotherapy was stimulated by work on clinical effectiveness I did in the 1990s, when I discovered how few widely used outcome measures were available in the languages many people in the UK speak; it made me realise how narrowly anglocentric physiotherapy in the UK is. I have been trying to question and understand my own privileged, normative, history ever since. I’m a father; a white, middle-class, heterosexual, English, man. I’m a physiotherapist by profession. I work clinically as a stroke coordinator; I conduct reviews of how people are reconstructing their lives, at 6 months post-stroke, physically, mentally, emotionally. I’m interested in how … [Read more...] about Ralph Hammond – 30DoS – Day 3
Sarah Oosman – 30DoS – Day 2
My name is Sarah Oosman. I am a 1st generation settler Canadian with mixed ethnicity (South Asian/Mauritius & Wales) and currently live, play, and work on Treaty 6 Territory and the Homeland of the Métis People, also known as Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada. I have been a physical therapist for more than 20 years and am an associate professor in the School of Rehabilitation Science, University of Saskatchewan. I am also a researcher with the Saskatchewan Population Health and Evaluation Research Unit (SPHERU) and a co-lead on an Indigenous-led Network Environment for Indigenous Health Research (NEIHR) in Saskatchewan. I joined the CPN at its inception in 2014. I spend my time in the … [Read more...] about Sarah Oosman – 30DoS – Day 2
Veronika Schoeb – 30 DoS – Day 1
Since my early days as a clinician, I have always been interested in the interactional/relational aspects of healthcare. What are the components that contribute to a successful therapeutic relationship between a patient and a physiotherapist? How do we need to think about interactions and communication in physiotherapy? After a few years of clinical practice in both Switzerland and the USA, I enrolled in a PhD programme in Sociology to explore exactly interactional aspects in musculoskeletal physiotherapy. I have been working in higher education for nearly 20 years and have continued to investigate interactional practice situations in healthcare, both in Switzerland and in Asia. I was … [Read more...] about Veronika Schoeb – 30 DoS – Day 1
CPN Digest #155
Something for the weekend: What the Frankfurt School has to say about bureaucratic progressivismSickness in the Workhouse: Poor Law Medical Care in Provincial England, 1834-1914The International Origins of Socialized Healthcare in CanadaEmpowering People to Make Healthier Choices: A Critical Discourse Analysis of the Tackling Obesity PolicyConcepts Between Kant and DeleuzeHumility in health care: A modelMerleau-Ponty, Trans Philosophy, and the Ambiguous BodySocially Constructing Healthy Eating: A Foucauldian Discourse Analysis of Healthy Eating Information and AdviceSuccessfully Negotiating Life Challenges: Learnings From Adults With Cerebral PalsySartre on the Body in “Being and … [Read more...] about CPN Digest #155
Up and coming with the CPN
Work in an organisation like the CPN can feel like breathing. Sometimes you're inhaling ideas, opportunities, and challenges, and other times you're putting things out into the atmosphere, wondering if your breath smells. Since 2014 we've been trying to be a positive force for an otherwise physiotherapy: writing blog posts, journal articles, and books; running online courses and month-long posting campaigns; making friends, and building networks. But our work has definitely slowed this year. We're writing less editorial blog posts and we ran no Critical Physiotherapy Course in 2021. Perhaps it is COVID, the climate emergency, the existential trauma of Trump, Brexit, and … [Read more...] about Up and coming with the CPN
CPN Digest #154
Something for the weekend: Including ‘inclusion health’? A discourse analysis of health inequalities policy reviewsMobilizing the Sense of “Fat”: A Phenomenological Materialist ApproachIntersectionality: Considering Identity When Working Towards a More Diverse, Equitable, and Inclusive FutureThe new platforms of health carePlanning an Environmentally Friendly In-Person ConferencePrimordial Haptics, 1925–1935: Hands, Tools and the Psychotechnics of PrehistoryTechnology, Capital Substitution and Labor Dynamics: Global Workforce Disruption in the 21st Century?The Fate of Phenomenology: Heidegger’s LegacyThere Is No Debate Over Critical Race TheoryAverting the middle class gaze: Pushing … [Read more...] about CPN Digest #154