Something for the weekend: Review of Foucault’s political work on critical thinkingYou'll soon be able to scoot around town—at 24 mph—without even having to stand upScience conference are stuck in the dark agesFrom Geoff Dyer to Nietzsche: the best books to inspire wanderlustNietzsche and the Burbs review – deadpan philosophical comedyPatty Thille: The determination to be thinner and fitter this year will not save youNew issue of Foucault StudiesHow the garage created white (segregated) suburbiaDisability//Body//History of TechnologyCFP - Living with Disabilities in New England, 1600-1900Research productivity in OT and PT in four Western countries and five Asian countries/regionsLenses on … [Read more...] about CPN Digest #70
CPN Digest #69
Something for the weekend: A practice theory approach to primary school physical activityHow designing hospitals for Indigenous people might benefit everyoneWhy Australian road rules should be rewritten to put walking first10 countries closest to achieving gender equalityMedia renderings of brain injury and Aaron Hernandez as a medical and sporting subjectThe (Agri-)Cultural origins of obesityHealth status changes with transitory disability over time”Physiotherapists therefore seem to have a more important role than doctors in fostering patients' motivation and adherence towards rehabilitation”The punch-drunk boxer and the battered wife: Gender and brain injury researchThe association of … [Read more...] about CPN Digest #69
Qualitative Health Research – a guide for the perplexed
Part 1 The changes now taking place in healthcare should provide great material for really thoughtful, well-conduced qualitative health research (QHR). But sadly little of it is being produced, especially in physiotherapy, where the amount and quality of much of the qualitative research we have available is really quite poor. So over the course of the next few weeks, I thought I’d try to tackle some of this in a similar way to the way I hacked at the biomedical model last year (see here). My hope is that in doing this, people will understand more about QHR, and that might, in turn, lead to some new and exciting research. Before I begin, I should acknowledge that there are literally … [Read more...] about Qualitative Health Research – a guide for the perplexed