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It has always been a puzzler to me why there is no Australian podiatry textbook. Across the Tasmin, New Zealanders have: Craig Payne wrote an excellent biomechanics text back in the dark and dim but sadly this was not given the exposure it deserved at the time. Jim Philps also wrote an orthotic manual which ran into two editions and is still available.

What say you?

toeslayer

Cameron,

While it's true that there are very few (or no) podiatry textbooks authored by Australian podiatrists, we certainly "punch above our weight" in relation to journal publications, and an increasing number of book chapters have been published by Australian podiatry authors.

Having said that, I'm sure there's more than a few potential textbooks out there if some of the very high quality undergraduate student manuals were pulled together into textbook format. However, to my knowledge none of the academic publishers offer "advances" to write a textbook. It's more a case of putting in a proposal and writing it in whatever time you have available.

Cheers,

Hylton

PS: watch this space:

http://intl.elsevierhealth.com/catal...=9780080450322

Hi Hylton

Good points. Was chatting to the Elseviere peeps at the FIP conference at the week-end and they are beginning to put their medical texts on-line with future plans podiatry/biomechanics will follow. Certainly good to see Australiasians are not behind the door when it comes to providing text and resources. I was ceremoniously handed a CD copy of Biomechanical Assessment (Interpod) Evidence Based Foot Orthoses authored by a young Kiwi, by the name of Craig Payne. Later I have to say I had a few latte's on the strength of just knowing him.

Thats the way to do it.
Well done Craig.

Cameron

Am at the University of Newcastle, deferred the Pod course (Big Mistake.) to try to finish Dental Hygiene course.
There is a whole shelf of brand new pod books in the library. But the book of choice is Martini 's Anatomy. All the Pod students have it under their arms all day.
The class for Pod is amazingly diverse. I snuck in a few anatomy classes of theirs.
Can't wait to next year.

Think I should explain this.
20 years ago, I was trying to get into dental hygiene, and there was this girl who was doing Podiatry, and she said that they were trying to keep it a male profession. So I didn't even bother to try...I didn't question how SHE got in either, stupid me.
I now realize that it was not as hard to get into as I then imaged.
Carole

You were misinformed. Podiatry in Australia has been a female dominated profession for as long as I have been around.

I try my hardest to keep the guys in the profession, but they get the sh*ts with our poor standing in the community and go and do medicine or something more "challenging". Don't blame them some days, considering all the infighting in our profession and the fractitious nature of APodC.

BTW - great to hear our President has resigned!!!

Wonder why?

Go Podiatry!

LL

You dont mean ............ President Bush ????

:) Go for it Carol the Cat Lover.
An Australian textbook on Podiatric Medicine and Surgery will be written and published as soon as I finish my PhD.
Pete the Pod

At the moment I am using, McMinn's Colour atlas of the foot and ankle,
3rd ed by Logan et al. It's really good, compared to other anatomy
books i have seen. It's not Australian though :(

The big driver for most publishing companies is the number of potential sales. The Australian marketplace is not very large, especially compared to the USA market, where there are different text requirrements (ie undergraduate surgery and more extensive prescribing rights). The UK market gives us the excellent work of Merriman and Turner, and the numerous and ever improving iterations of Neale's, thus there is not a huge publishing vaccuum.

Mind you, one day, when the children (and the profession) grow up, I shall sit down with Craig and Cameron, and we shall right the definitive text - over latte's and any other stimulant beverages we can find.