Healthpunk Vol 2:
Healthcare + Fiction + You
The need for transformative change across healthcare and society at large is now well recognized in light of diverse social, ecological and health crises.
Healthpunk volume 2 invited health students, clinicians, educators, researchers, professional representatives, policymakers, and patients from around the world to send us their own fictional stories located anytime in the future, in which the work of health and care is deliberately focused on responding to social and ecological challenges and supporting better ways of living and being healthy together in this manner.
The need for hopeful yet radically different possibilities for future health/care implies reaching beyond the parameters, logic, and politics of our siloed clinical environments and scopes of practice. This also means that Healthpunk stories do not need to be realistic in any narrow or immediate sense but, rather, to let go of established conventions and imagine otherwise futures filled with creativity and genuine care for the health of everyone we share this planet with.
Cover Art & Design
by miucreative.com
PROLOGUE
How do you do something you have never done before?
By Filip Maric, Liv J. Nikolaisen, Mahitsonge N. Ntinga, & Jena Webb
HEALTHPUNK STORIES
Time by Meri Westlake
Embodied Case History Assessment: A new era of empathy
by Bonnie B. Y. Cheng, Lisa Anemaat, & Peter H. Worthy
If we could turn our emotions into light by Jiameng Xu
Soigner les Nouveaux Centaure / Caring for the New Centaurs by Sandra Friedrich
Utopioita genitaalisilta rajapinnoilta / Utopias from the Genital Limits
by Annastiina Rajala-Vaittinen
A Note for Future Bodyworkers by Eriko Fujii
Futuros Ancestrais: As Cantadoras de Histórias / Ancestral Futures: The Story Singers
by Jocyele Ferreira Marinheiro et al.
Night Swimming by David A. Nicholls
Homo Sapien by Bailey Davis
The Stand by Melissa Bates
COMMENTARIES
Relational Becomings and Ethical Practices
by Louise Søgaard Hansen & Trine Schifter Larsen
Easier to Imagine by Ben Brisbois
Science Fiction: A Healthy Preoccupation? By Nick Pollard & Sandra Schiller
Embracing the Unknown by Kristen Abrahams & Rita Macamba
ENDITORIALS
Als Physiotherapie noch in der Praxis stattfand / When Physiotherapy Still Happened in the Clinic by Filip Maric
Therein lies hope by Jena Webb
We hope you will enjoy the journey that Healthpunk Vol 2 invites you on and look forward to conjuring up even further
future healthcares with you.
Your Healthpunk volume 2 editorial team,
Filip Maric (PhD), Associate Professor, UiT The Arctic University of Norway; Founder and
Executive Chair of the Environmental Physiotherapy Association
Liv J. Nikolaisen (MSc), Physiotherapy Programme Lead, UiT The Arctic University of Norway
Mahitsonge Nomusa Ntinga (MSc) Lecturer, University of Cape Town
Jena Webb (PhD), Director of Programmes, CoPEH CanadaCommunity of Practice in
Ecosystem Approaches to Health
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