By comparison with medicine, nursing and psychology, histories of physiotherapy are few and far between. Since the mid-1990s though, a number of new centenary publications have been produced, and these have been followed by the first batch of ‘secondary’ historical analyses.
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Although some are hard to find in print now, good quality 2nd hand copies and reprints can be found here.
References
Anderson, E. M. (1977). New Zealand Society of Physiotherapists: Golden Jubilee 1923-1973. Wellington: New Zealand Society of Physiotherapists.
Barclay, J. (1994). In good hands: The history of the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy 1894-1994. Oxford: Butterworth Heinemann.
Bentley, P., & Dunstan, D. (2006). The path to professionalism: Physiotherapy in Australia to the 1980s. Melbourne: Australian Physiotherapy Association.
Cleather, J. (1995). Head, heart and hands: The story of physiotherapy in Canada. Toronto: Canadian Physiotherapy Association.
Jacobsen, K. (2018). 100 år i bevægelse: Fysioterapi, fag og profession. København: Munksgaard.
Leijssenaar, B. (2011). Fysiotherapie in Nederland: 1965 – heden (Physical therapy in the Netherlands: 1965 – present). Amsterdam: Koninklijk Nederlands Genootschap voor Fysiotherapie. (Available to read online here, including a summary chapter in English).
McMeeken, J. (2018). Science in our hands: Physiotherapy at the University of Melbourne, 1895–2010. Melbourne: University of Melbourne Press.
Murphy, W. (1995). Healing the generations: A history of physical therapy and the American Physical Therapy Association. Lyme, Connecticut: Greenwich Publishing.
Nicholls, D. A. (2017). The end of physiotherapy. London: Routledge.
Salvador, J. L. (2016). Historia de la fisioterapia hasta la primera guerra mundial: Avances científicos, universitarios y profesionales (con comentarios sobre la evolución posterior). Valencia: Railowsky. (Available from www.railowsky.com).
Scrymgeour, J. (2000). Moving on: A history of the New Zealand Society of Physiotherapy Inc. 1973-1999 (1st ed.). Wellington: New Zealand Society of Physiotherapy Inc.
Shaw, L. (2013). In our hands: 100 years of the School of Physiotherapy in Otago 1913-2013. Dunedin: University of Otago.
Ottosson, A. (2005). Sjukgymnasten – vart tog han vägen?: En undersökning av sjukgymnastyrkets maskulinisering och avmaskulinisering 1813-1934. Göteborg: Göteborg University.
Terlouw, T. J. (2004). De opkomst en neergang van de Zander-Instituten rond 1900 in Nederland in de 19de eeuw: Over zeldzame amfibieen in een kikkerland. Rotterdam: Erasmus.
Wickstead, J.H. (1948). The growth of a profession: being the history of the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy 1894-1945. London; Edward Arnold.
Wilson, H. C. (1995). Physiotherapists in war. Adelaide: Honor C. Wilson.