Summer reads in critical physiotherapy
Seven Samurai to cut critically through your summer slumbers
Looking for something to read over this coming (Northern) summer? Want to give your students something to ponder over the holidays? Here are seven books from the critical physiotherapy stable that go well with a bit of sunblock and a floppy hat.
All of these books are available online at Google Books, Book Depository, Amazon, etc., but we’ve included the publisher’s page if you want the book’s details.
Physiotherapy Otherwise
The latest book from Dave Nicholls analysing physiotherapy sociologically.
Free pdf/ebook download here.
Rehabilitation A Post-critical Approach
Barbara Gibson’s major critique of disability and rehabilitation.
Publisher’s page here.
Integrative Rehabilitation Practice
Matt Erb’s recent comprehensive collection of writings on whole-person care for health professionals.
Publisher’s page here.
Mobilizing Knowledge in Physiotherapy
The 2nd edited collection from 2021 of critical physiotherapy writings, this one from physiotherapists who collaborated with writers who were outside the discipline.
Publisher’s page here.
Manipulating Practices
The 1st edited collection from 2019 of critical physiotherapy writings. A landmark text.
Publisher’s page here.
The End of Physiotherapy
Dave Nicholls’s first long-form book looks historically at how physiotherapy got here and where it might be going.
Publisher’s page here.
Rethinking Rehabilitation: Theory and Practice
Although not strictly a CPN stable book, this edited collection from 2015 includes a lot of CPN members
Publisher’s page here.