Readers of the old critical physio site (link) will be very familiar with these Digests.
But for everyone else, these Digests come out every week and comprise a hand-curated list of 15 post-conventional snippets from the margins of critical healthcare thinking.
I’m always really happy to receive recommendations and suggestions from people, so if you have anything you’d like other people to see, send it to david.nicholls@aut.ac.nz.
Ambivalent reading: Ambivalence as a reading practice in critical literacy
Colonialism and modern social theory, plus this and this
Knowledge legitimacy battles in nursing, quality in care, and nursing professionalization
“I hadn’t realised the tremendous psychological effect of a uniform.” Lady Cynthia Asquith experiences a healthcare worker’s shift in 1916
Should health research funding be proportional to the burden of disease?
Call for papers: Foucault’s Legacy in Contemporary Thinking (by 31/09/2023)
Georges Canguilhem on sex determination and the normativity of life
Living with multiple sclerosis taught me that it can be freeing to be foul-mouthed
Healthcare Activism: Markets, Morals, and the Collective Good