A Speculative Tabulation of the Medico-Techno-Political Eras of Physiotherapy
A heuristic table tracing how capitalism, medicine, and technology have shaped the body in physiotherapy
If you are interested in why physiotherapy looks the way it does today, or in what its future might hold, this table offers a starting point for thinking through these questions. The table emerged from my PhD research on the changing conceptions of the body in physiotherapy and first appeared in a 2026 paper theorizing the concept of the body in physiotherapy. It brings socioeconomic, technological, and medical transformations into conversation to consider how they have shaped what…
