Manipulating Practices : A Critical Physiotherapy Reader

Manipulating practices is the first ever collection of critical physiotherapy studies and comes at a time of unprecedented change in the profession. Written as a collaboration between 20 authors, many members of the Critical Physiotherapy Network (CPN), the book uncovers the growing body of critical thinking now emerging in physiotherapy. From topics as diverse as 21st century education, ethics, evidence-based practice, touch, and equine therapy; and approaches as varied as disability and performance studies, feminism, logic, narrative theory, new materialism, and phenomenology, the book explores ways of thinking 'otherwise' about physiotherapy. Over 16 chapters written by authors from six different countries, Manipulating practices offers insights from some of physiotherapy's most radical thinkers. The book is also an innovative venture into open source publishing, making it entirely free to download and read. In keeping with the objectives of the CPN, the chapters expose a range of concepts, ideas and practices to critical scrutiny, and reflect the profession's growing interest in critiquing taken-for-granted ways of practicing and thinking. Manipulating practices will be of interest to clinicians, lecturers, policy-makers, researchers and students, and will provide new impetus to help physiotherapists imagine how the profession might grow and develop into the future.

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CONTENTS:
Working against the grain: Criticality for an otherwise physiotherapy / Barbara E. Gibson, et.al.
Post-critical physiotherapy ethics: A commitment to openness / Barbara E. Gibson
What can critical theory do for the moral practice of physiotherapy / Anna Ilona Rajola
Deconceptualizing causation in evidence-based physiotherapy / Roger Kerry
New materialism and physiotherapy / David A. Nicholls
Performative acts of physiotherapy / Blaise Doran and Jenny Setchell
A critical perspective on stigma in physiotherapy: The example ow weight stigma / Jenny Setchell and Ukachukwu Abaraogu
The desire for "hands-on" therapy - a critical analysis of the phenomenon of touch / Fiona Moffatt and Roger Kerry
Equine-facilitated physiotherapy - devised encounters with daring and compassion / Tobba Therkildsen Sudmann
Unbinding physiotherapy knowledge. Critical disability studies' epistemology: Moving towards a socially-just physiotherapy profession
A Baradian approach to evidence-based practice in physiotherapy education / Tone Dahl-Michelsen and Karen Synne Groven
A critical pedagogy for online learning in physiotherapy education / Michael Rowe
Physiotherapy at the intersection between standardization and individual adaptation / Wenche S. Bjorbaekmo and James A. Shaw
Communicating in physiotherapy: Challenging established theoretical approaches / Amy Hiller and Clare Delany
What's in a number? Progress and Body shame in Lifestyle Programs for Adolescents / Karen Synne, et.al.
Using narrative perspectives in the clinical setting of physiotherapy. Why and how? / Brgitte Ahlsen and Kari Nyheim Solbraekke