{"product_id":"physiotherapy-otherwise-9781927184912","title":"Physiotherapy Otherwise","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): David A. Nicholls\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: David Nicholls\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: David Nicholls\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Sociology - Social Theory\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMost 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBy 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"David Nicholls","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45131956093079,"sku":"9781927184912","price":2194.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781927184912.webp?v=1767906512","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/physiotherapy-otherwise-9781927184912","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}