Critical Studies in Physiotherapy
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2017 looks like being another busy and exciting year for the CPN. As well as our first CPN Salon (mini-conference), being held at the lovely Cape Town restaurant Ottimo Cibo on the day after the WCPT conference, we will be launching our first collaboratively written book. We're currently working on possible titles, with our favourite being Mobilising physiotherapy: A critical physiotherapy reader, but the final decision will be made soon. We already have full drafts of all 15 chapters, and the editorial team (Barbara Gibson, Dave Nicholls, Jenny Setchell and Karen Synne Groven) are working through their recommendations and edits.
We have chapters that look critically at physiotherapy through performing arts, communications, phenomenology of touch, new materialism, and narratives, as well as chapters on ethics, education and evidence-based practice. We have subjects ranging from weight stigma to hippotherapy, disability to moral theory. Overall there will be 16 chapters from 20 different authors, and thus far we've managed to keep almost exactly to our planned timelines.
Perhaps most excitingly, we will hold the copyright for the book which, thanks to the generous support of the University of Oslo, will be an open source publication, meaning that we can do with it as we wish when it's finished. Soon we'll be sending it to our publishers - Norway's biggest publisher of scientific and technical manuscripts, Cappelen Damm - who will turn our Word documents into a shiny new (e)book. We're hoping to have the book ready for distribution in late 2017 or early 2018.
Over the next few months we'll be posting updates on the book and sending out snippets and teasers to entice you to read it, but to start with, here's a list of the book's authors, who deserve enormous credit for their ideas, inspiration and encouragement in being the epitome of a positive force for an otherwise physiotherapy.
Ukachukwu Abaraogu
Birgitte Ahlsen
Wenche Bjorbækmo
Tone Dahl-Michelsen
Clare Delany
Blaise Doran
Barbara Gibson (also Lead editor)
Nicole Glenn
Karen Synne Groven (also Editor)
Amy Hiller
Roger Kerry
Fiona Moffatt
Dave Nicholls (also Editor)
Anna Rajala
Michael Rowe
Jenny Setchell (also Editor)
Jay Shaw
Kari Solbraekke
Tobba Sudmann
Karen K. Yoshida