The End of Physiotherapy

Physiotherapy needs to engage in critically informed theoretical discussion about the profession's history to explore practice from economic, philosophical, political and sociological perspectives. This book aims to explain how physiotherapy has arrived at a critical point in its history, and to point to a new future for the profession.

David A. Nicholls is Associate Professor in the School of Clinical Sciences, Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand.

PART I 1 Introduction; 2 Physical therapies before 1894; 3 The quest for legitimacy (1894-1914); 4 The pursuit of orthodoxy (1914-1973); 5 Physiotherapy under neoliberalism (1973-present); PART II; 6 The body; 7 Posture and movement; 8 Function and rehabilitation; PART III; 9 Implications for education, practice, regulation and research; 10 The end of physiotherapy; Epilogue: Methodology.