Gender is an issue that has become increasingly important in physiotherapy scholarship in recent years. The first time research by a physiotherapist that specifically addressed this question was a paper by Anne Parry with what must still be the best title for any research paper ever written: Ginger Rogers did everything Fred Astaire did backwards and in high heels (pdf). The paper still resonates strongly with me and has some important things to say about our professions gendered history. Anders Ottosson's seminal work on the 'feminization' of physiotherapy in 19th century still stands as one of the most important works on the subject, but there are other important works too, and these … [Read more...] about Three theses on gender and physiotherapy
Qualitative Inquiry and the Debate Between Hermeneutics and Critical Theory
New article A new article has just been published in Qualitative Health Research by two authors from University of Toronto that people within the Critical Physiotherapy Network might know well. James Shaw and Ryan DeForge contributed to an edited collection on Philosophy and Physiotherapy that Barbara Gibson and I co-edited in August 2012 (full version available at the bottom of this post). Jay and Ryan's new paper is titled 'Qualitative Inquiry and the Debate Between Hermeneutics and Critical Theory' and the abstract follows and you can link to the full details of the paper here: Abstract Two issues have been central to ongoing disputes about judgments of quality in qualitative inquiry: … [Read more...] about Qualitative Inquiry and the Debate Between Hermeneutics and Critical Theory