Something for the weekend: Coronavirus biopolitics: the paradox of France’s Foucauldian heritageAn interactive teaching module for increasing undergraduate physiotherapy students' cultural competence: A quantitative surveyThe problem with predictionLearning from a situation of discomfort – a qualitative study of physiotherapy student practice in mental healthYour Body, Your Self, Your Surgeon, His InstagramPhysiotherapy students' self‐assessment of performance—Are there gender differences in self‐assessment accuracy?Patient values in physiotherapy practice, a qualitative studyThe State of Mobile Internet Connectivity 2020Accessing healthcare as a person with a rugby-related spinal cord … [Read more...] about CPN Digest #130
CPN Digest #129
Something for the weekend: Helen Keller Conspiracy Theories Are Awash With Ableism“Moving Worlds” Special Issue on Literature, Medicine, HealthMy Research Is My Story: A Methodological Framework of Inquiry Told Through Storytelling by a Doctor of Philosophy StudentThe Model Of Becoming Aware: disabled subjectivities, policy enactment and new exclusions in higher educationA longitudinal, narrative study of professional socialisation among health students (incl physiotherapists)Whether a crisis of public health or public safety, is the best response increased surveillance?Is there a philosophy of neuroscience?Why Does Scientific Fraud Happen, and what would W. E. B. du Bois do about it?All … [Read more...] about CPN Digest #129
Measuring physiotherapy
Why is it that physiotherapists measure things? Over the last few weeks I’ve talked with some physio colleagues about their work, and been struck by the way they are asking some pretty fundamental questions about physiotherapy. One conversation revolved around the trend towards active treatment and patient self-management. “Why is it”, this colleague asked, “that some physios are giving up on so-called passive treatments? If we were artists, we wouldn’t give up on painting just because the latest trend was for video installations.” Is it because physiotherapists have come to believe their job is to ‘fix’ things in a way that artists never do? There seems to be a lot of hubris and … [Read more...] about Measuring physiotherapy