Ginger Rogers Did Everything Fred Astaire Did Backwards and in High Heels

Parry, Anne

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“…The impact of gender in physiotherapy and the prevalence of gender bias has become more widely acknowledged and explored, and the means to address these challenges considered (Dahl-Michelsen & Solbraekke, 2014; Enberg et al, 2007;Hammond, 2013;Linker, 2005;Nicholls, 2022;Parry, 1995;Sudmann, 2009).…”

Section: Gender and The Clinicianmentioning

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Gender disadvantage in physiotherapy

Cullen¹

2023

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Gender inequality exists in healthcare, resulting in a gendered division of labour where women generally receive lower pay and status in the industry than male health professionals. This critical review will examine the state of gender disadvantage in health work and physiotherapy using feminist theories and exposing social norms and beliefs that allow these practices to be perpetuated. Gender disadvantage within the physiotherapy profession is explored, demonstrating gender disparity permeating through career lifespans from training to retirement, including, among others, differences in career specialisation, workplace violence, and unequal treatment of patients. Using historical references, the evolution of gender discrimination and disruption is reviewed. In understanding these factors, a pathway can be exposed to move towards gender equality within our profession.

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Section: Gender and The Clinicianmentioning

confidence: 99%

Gender disadvantage in physiotherapy

Cullen¹

2023

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“…With the exception of a few studies exploring physiotherapists' gendered history as a profession (Heap, 1995a;1995b;Parry, 1995); critical interpretivist approaches to the profession's craft knowledge (Higgs and Titchen, 2001;); the relationship between physiotherapy and welfarism (Kjølsrød and Thornquist, 2004); the emerging sociologies of the body (Jorgensen, 2000); and critical histories of the discursive construction of physiotherapy as a practice (Dixon, 2003;Nicholls and Larmer, 2005;Nicholls and Cheek, 2006); there has been little work either by physiotherapists or by social scientists to explore, sociologically, how Nicholls et al: Making Breathing Your Business physiotherapy is affecting and being affected by the rapidly changing economy of health in developed countries.…”

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Making breathing your business: enterprising practices at the margins of orthodoxy

2009

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Over the last 30 years there has been a gradual but nonetheless significant shift in the political economy of healthcare in developed countries. The health reforms that have accompanied this shift have had a significant impact upon medicine, nursing and a number of other orthodox health professions, but to date, little work has been done to explore the changing nature of physiotherapy practice. This study draws on Foucault's notion of governmentality to explore the enterprising practices of a new physiotherapy clinic established in Auckland, New Zealand. Drawing on a critical history of respiratory physiotherapy, which had previously been firmly anchored within the public health sector, we show that the actions and practices of the clinic's staff are testing the margins of orthodox physiotherapy practice and exploring the new market possibilities offered by consumer demand for optimal health. The study explores how the physiotherapists at the clinic are problematizing the practices, clinical spaces and clientele associated with orthodox practice, and, most notably, commodifying breathing, to create a space within which it is possible to think about physiotherapy otherwise. This study builds on the instability now surrounding the orthodox health professions and asks if exemplars like that offered in this article provide some meaningful insights into the future for healthcare practice.

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“…That is, physiotherapy's intellectual foundations rest in the belief that there is a single objective answer to any question (a positivist theoretical perspective, see Crotty, 1998). Parry (1995) argued that the adoption of this orthodox "medical model" dates back to gender-related historical constraints on the women who founded the profession and who were willing to "trade autonomy for orthodoxy, to carry out ancillary and subordinate tasks … in exchange for recognition and patronage" (p. 310). Today, this positivist way of thinking is evident in that randomised controlled trials and systematic reviews are upheld as "gold standards" in the profession, to the marginalisation of other methodologies (Crosbie, 2013;Richardson & Lindquist, 2010).…”

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Weight stigma in health: (re)thinking weight in a physiotherapy context

Setchell¹

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The physiotherapy profession increasingly considers weight management to be part of its scope of practice. Ostensibly this may seem like a good idea: popular media and biomedical discourses highlight a global "obesity epidemic", and physiotherapists, considered "experts in movement", may be well placed to help address obesity by encouraging activity. On the other hand, an excessive focus on weight can have negative consequences. A large body of research now highlights negative attitudes towards those who are overweight (weight stigma) among health professionals, including doctors, nurses, dieticians, psychologists and exercise scientists. Yet, despite the size and impact of the profession, there has been little work exploring weight stigma in the context of physiotherapy.My aims are two-fold. First, I investigate weight-related interactions in physiotherapy, and second, I investigate how weight might be (re)thought in this context. The first three thesis chapters provide a theoretical exploration of concepts relevant to weight in physiotherapy. In the introductory chapter I argue that it is helpful to draw from scholarship in critical psychology and the emerging field of critical physiotherapy. In Chapter 2 I consider traditional social psychological theories that provide a social and embodied understanding of weight stigma. However, I outline how these theories are notably apolitical, acultural, ahistorical and lack mechanisms for understanding power in stigma. To address this issue, I introduce post-structuralist perspectives (particularly those of Michel Foucault) that are often used in critical social science. Using a poststructural psychological lens, I critically examine the literature on weight and its associated stigma.As context specific understandings are desirable, I use Chapter 3 to examine the nature of the physiotherapy profession, to determine what might be relevant to "thinking weight" and considerations of stigma. Here I look in depth at this profession, discussing where power, the body, reflexivity and the profession's ontological underpinnings might be relevant to weight-related physiotherapy interactions.In Chapter 4 I outline the empirical approaches I took to further address the aims of the thesis, and discuss their underlying assumptions. Following this, in Chapters 5 to 7 I present three empirical studies, each of which is published in peer-reviewed journals (or under review). In a previous study (described in Chapter 3) I tested weight stigma in physiotherapists using attitude tests in an online survey. I found that participating physiotherapists held explicit and implicit weight stigmatising attitudes similar to those in related professions. Building on this earlier work, Iconducted an inductive thematic analysis of interviews with patients who had experienced weightrelated interactions with physiotherapists (described in Chapter 5). Participants spoke of perceiving weight stigma in a number of elements of physiotherapy interactions, elements of the physiotherapy environment and...

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Ginger Rogers Did Everything Fred Astaire Did Backwards and in High Heels

Cited by 16 publications

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Gender disadvantage in physiotherapy

Gender disadvantage in physiotherapy

Making breathing your business: enterprising practices at the margins of orthodoxy

Weight stigma in health: (re)thinking weight in a physiotherapy context

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