

This study seeks to contribute to these efforts by drawing on a range of traditions that have not yet been introduced to the profession, but appear to hold great potential for its critical reassessment and development.ĭrawing from Annemarie Mol's conceptulisation of multiplicity, we explore how health care practices enact their object(s), using physiotherapy as our example. One approach entails a thorough reassessment of the profession's status quo and its subsequent development, drawing on hitherto unexamined philosophies, methodologies, and practices.

Ways in which physiotherapy could respond to these challenges and adapt to future needs are being explored. Despite its success, modern healthcare more generally faces a number of significant challenges, including increasing financial burdens, an increasingly ageing and chronically ill population, ongoing technological innovation, and diminishing trust in conventional healthcare. Physiotherapy is a well-established healthcare profession, practiced in healthcare systems around the world. Physiotherapy and Fundamental Ethics engages the field of physiotherapy through a critique of its contemporary foundations from the perspective of the ethics philosophy of Emmannuel Levinas, in order to develop novel approaches to physiotherapy practice.
