Spring 2019

Physical Therapy at Bath War Hospital: Rehabilitation and Its Links to WW1

Heide Pöstges, MSc, PT explores the accelerated development of rehabilitation medicine during the First World War (WWI), through the artwork of British painter E. Horton. In the painting, “Physical Therapy at Bath War Hospital,” Horton depicts one of the very first physiotherapy departments in England. As Pöstges analyzes the painting in its historical context, we are given a new perspective into the socio-political-economic aspects of the evolution of physical therapy.

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Editorial: Cultivating Vulnerability

doi: 10.18737/0607723457 AMA Citation: Blanton SR. Editorial: Cultivating Vulnerability. J Hum Rehabil. 2019; Spring. doi:10.18737/0607723457 Download the article (pdf) Table of Contents   “I cannot

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Goodbye, With Love

Amanda Sharp won this year’s CHEP-JHR Student Essay Contest with her essay “Goodbye, With Love,” which reflects on both her personal and her professional experiences with patients in hospice care.

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Returning Back to Oneself: Cultivating Vulnerability in the Health Professions

In her essay featured in this issue, “Returning Back to Oneself: Cultivating Vulnerability in the Health Professions,” Nicole Piemonte, PhD reflects on her book, Afflicted: How Vulnerability Can Heal Medical Education and Practice. Using philosophers such as Nietzsche and Kierkegaard as guides, Piemonte seeks to explore why many clinicians experience a “crisis of meaning” in their work. With the primary focus of healthcare education on biologic intervention, topics of vulnerability and the lived experience of suffering are largely minimized, if not absent. Piemonte calls for us to create a learning environment that recognizes vulnerability as a means to cultivate the courage to authentically engage with human suffering.

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Stone Tongue

doi: 10.18737/0607823456 AMA Citation: Flores F. Stone Tongue. J Hum Rehabil. 2019; Spring. doi:10.18737/0607823456 Download the article (pdf) Table of Contents The doctor observes.My son’s

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Profiles in Professionalism: Interview with Gail M. Jensen, PT, PhD, FAPTA

In our second installment of our “Profiles in Professionalism” series, we interview Gail Jensen, PT, PhD, FAPTA, FNAP, dean of the Graduate School and vice provost for Learning and Assessment at Creighton University. Recognized internationally for her scholarship in expert clinical practice, professional ethics, and interprofessional education, Jensen explores the meaning of professional identity and the ways we can use the humanities to strengthen professionalism in the field of physical therapy.

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Resources: Spring 2019

doi: 10.18737/0607823459 AMA Citation: Godbole N, Whitesides K. Resources: Spring 2019. J Hum Rehabil. 2019; Spring. doi:10.18737/0607823459 Download the article (pdf) Table of Contents  

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