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Journal of Physical Therapy and Sports Medicine
Volume 1, Issue 1
Euro Physiotherapy 2017
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December 07-08, 2017 Rome, Italy
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Euro-Global Physiotherapy Congress 2017
A rigourous ethical approach to normativity:
Insight into physiotherapy practice for
disabled and enabled patients
Martine Same
Campus Paramedic Door De Paris, France
A
rigourous ethical approach to normativity: insight
into physiotherapy practice for disabled and enabled
patients. Philosophy and physiotherapy are too often
considered as distinct and divergent disciplines whereas
they both seek to investigate and solve the question of
“what could be the best way for human beings to live?”.
By studying direct links to practical examples in which
an ethical approach to norms is required (assessments,
manipulations…), we will show the importance of relating
the bases of ethics to a physiotherapy setting. On a large
scale, the relevance to physiotherapy is that the insight
it provides can benefit professional and patient coherent
reasoning and health caring with respect to individual
abilities and situations. Such an approach helps focus on
the patient as a human being, able to propose or expect
a personal response to his disabilities and-or- enabilities,
and invites new challenges to normalizing assumptions. A
different practice could thus be redesigned, which could
raise the credibility of the profession as a whole; since
this fight to keep a rigourous human touch can offer truly
augmented human capabilities to live a full life.
Biography
Martine Same began her career as a Teacher of French Language and
Literature in England and of English Language in grammar schools in Haute-
Savoie (France). She then followed studies in Physiotherapy, and specialized
in re-education (rehabilitation). She worked 20 years in the Paris region,
both as a Physiotherapist and as a Teacher of Physiotherapy. She still
teaches Physiotherapy and has been appointed as Director of the Collection
Philosophy, Ethics and Health (Connaissances et Savoirs editions) in 2016.
Since gaining Doctorates in Educational Science and Philosophy, she has
spent several years researching and joining discussions on ethics with health
professionals and philosophers, concerning the theme of what philosophy can
bring to the world of functional re-education and rehabilitation. Over the last ten
years she has taught, and drawn attention to, the relevance and importance
of this approach, especially through the publication of her thesis in Practical
Philosophy and through the writing of articles and books on the subject.
martine.same@free.frMartine Same, J Phys Ther Sports Med 2017