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Most people are so familiar with the idea of professions that it would be hard to imagine life without them. And yet, the professions we know today are a relatively recent invention. Although physiotherapy may not have achieved the extraordinary levels of privilege and prestige enjoyed by medicine, it still has three-quarters of a million respected and valued practitioners worldwide, and is, in many ways, the model of a modern health profession. But physiotherapy is also facing unprecedented challenges, and calls for reform are now widespread. Global healthcare is on the cusp of a cultural, economic, social, and technological revolution, and entering a new post-professional era. Physiotherapy will be affected in profoundly important ways in the coming years, but, to date, we have precious few tools to help us navigate the change. The story of how physiotherapy arrived here was the subject of The End of Physiotherapy (Routledge, 2017). Physiotherapy Otherwise builds on this work, bringing a century of social theory to our understanding of the profession. The book explores what the professions are, what they do in society, what's good about them, and what's bad, and applies all of this to physiotherapy today. By taking the reader from our earliest sociological understandings of the professions to the cutting edge of contemporary thinking, Physiotherapy Otherwise is both a primer on sociology and a critical course in a new way to understand our profession and our practice.

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this is a groundbreaking, timely, and beautifully executed book In my view, this is the single most important book in physiotherapy since physiotherapy As an academic physiotherapist, researcher, and educator, I can state unreservedly the importance of the book to the profession To date, there exists no other comprehensive critical sociological analysis of the profession, let alone one that is written in an equally lucid way, and builds on such penetrative analysis to outline a radically otherwise future for physiotherapy and the physical therapies The author has produced an exceptionally absorbing text that is the first of its kind in physiotherapy. As a companion to his first book, The End of Physiotherapy, it is a 'must read' for all physiotherapists This is the book I have been looking for! The book is ground-breaking in its scope, providing an unprecedented deep dive into how physiotherapy emerged as a profession, its blind spots, and its future The work is highly original. While there is some related work regarding other health professions, this book is the first of its kind in relation to physiotherapy in its presentation and interrogation of social theory [this book] offers the essential foundations for sense-making and critical thinking

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David A. Nicholls is a Professor of Critical Physiotherapy at AUT University in Auckland, New Zealand. He is a physiotherapist, researcher, teacher, and writer, with a passion for thinking otherwise about physiotherapy.

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