Perspectives on podiatric biomechanics: Foucault and the professional project
Perspectives on podiatric biomechanics: Foucault and the professional project
The relatively recent emergence of podiatric biomechanics in the UK as a therapeutic practice underpinned by rational, scientific principles and applied with indeterminate skill may be viewed either as a professionalising strategy designed to enhance the credibility and authority of podiatry and elevate its status, or, alternatively, through a Foucauldian analysis of power/knowledge and an emerging podiatric discourse extending the clinical "gaze" of the podiatrist. A Foucauldian analysis serves to provide an alternative view to the traditional, structural approach to power relations and marks a significant shift in the boundaries and constitution of podiatric power and knowledge. This approach also, it is argued, offers insights into the relative failure of podiatry to professionalise to an extent comparable with dentistry, in spite of professional aspirations to parity of esteem.
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Borthwick, A.M.
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February 1999
Borthwick, A.M.
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Borthwick, A.M.
(1999)
Perspectives on podiatric biomechanics: Foucault and the professional project.
British Journal of Podiatry, 2 (1), .
Abstract
The relatively recent emergence of podiatric biomechanics in the UK as a therapeutic practice underpinned by rational, scientific principles and applied with indeterminate skill may be viewed either as a professionalising strategy designed to enhance the credibility and authority of podiatry and elevate its status, or, alternatively, through a Foucauldian analysis of power/knowledge and an emerging podiatric discourse extending the clinical "gaze" of the podiatrist. A Foucauldian analysis serves to provide an alternative view to the traditional, structural approach to power relations and marks a significant shift in the boundaries and constitution of podiatric power and knowledge. This approach also, it is argued, offers insights into the relative failure of podiatry to professionalise to an extent comparable with dentistry, in spite of professional aspirations to parity of esteem.
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