This blogpost was published recently on noijam.com and I thought it might be interesting to point people to it. Seamus Barker is a physiotherapist who also completed a BA in Social Theory and Literature. Seamus uses critical theory and continental philosophy in his work and is currently completing a PhD at the University of Sydney's Centre for Values, Ethics, and the Law in Medicine. Last week I had the pleasure of presenting at a conference at Monash University in Australia, convened in partnership with Warwick University in the UK, entitled Translating Pain: an International Forum on Text, Language and Suffering. One of the central questions asked by the conference was whether … [Read more...] about Translating pain (reblog)
Norwegian psychomotor physiotherapy and embodied narrative identity
One of the things I've learnt quickly in getting this Critical Physiotherapy Network going, is that there is actually quite a lot of really interesting, ground-breaking philosophical work going on out there but it's not breaking through into mainstream physio practice. As I've said before, in my job I'm fortunate to have access to databases of journals, e-alerts, and the like, but I still hardly knew anything about the work going on in Scandinavia, for instance. Some of it is quite outstanding, but be honest, how many of you knew about Norwegian Psychomotor Physiotherapy? Over the last few weeks I've been talking to a few of our colleagues in Norway, Denmark and Sweden and finding out … [Read more...] about Norwegian psychomotor physiotherapy and embodied narrative identity