Next week we have the 4th in our series of free online critical physiotherapy seminars. This one will be led by Patty Thille, talking about "What does it mean to 'care'? Thinking with Annemarie Mol". Details of how to connect and the times of the talk in your local area are below. Zoom link: https://aut.zoom.us/j/241857657 Dates and times in your area Location Local Time Time Zone UTC Offset Auckland (New Zealand - Auckland) Friday, 24 May 2019 at 7:00:00 a.m. NZST UTC+12 hours Sydney (Australia - New South Wales) Friday, 24 May 2019 at 5:00:00 a.m. AEST UTC+10 hours Perth (Australia - Western Australia) Friday, 24 May 2019 at 3:00:00 … [Read more...] about The 4th free online critical physiotherapy seminar next week with Patty Thille
Blaise Doran – Healing dramas and clinical plots – 30DoS #19
Healing dramas and clinical plots (1998) is an ethnographic account by anthropologist, Cheryl Mattingly, of occupational therapists’ work in rehabilitation settings during the mid-1980s. She uses diverse sources to support her ideas from literary and narrative theory, phenomenology and hermeneutics, and anthropological perspectives on ritual and narrative. In doing so, she presents the rehabilitation process, and its clinical interactions, as a form of drama, adhering to a socially constructed narrative plot. She proposes that, if narrative (as has been suggested) reflects the lived experience, it does so through narrative drama rather than narrative cohesion. As an undergraduate, I came … [Read more...] about Blaise Doran – Healing dramas and clinical plots – 30DoS #19
New: humanities
Although it’s going to be hard to accept, particularly by those people currently striving to make a difference in the profession, but it probably won’t be this generation of physiotherapists that bring about the radical change necessary to prepare the profession for the new world of 21st century health care. There are any number of reasons for this: Physiotherapists are, by and large, a relatively conservative bunch, who don’t instigate radical change Physiotherapy is highly respected and well patronised, so there are few indicators that we need to change much Most people in positions of authority have received a traditional training, and tend to like things the way that they are, … [Read more...] about New: humanities