“…This is not to say, of course, that physiotherapy does not have historians or histories of its work. Alongside centenary histories, we have strong academic scholarship from people like Anders Ottosson (Ottosson, 2005(Ottosson, , 2011(Ottosson, , 2016a(Ottosson, , 2016b; Thomas Terlouw (Terlouw, 2007a(Terlouw, , 2007b; Beth Linker (Linker, 2005a(Linker, , 2005b(Linker, , 2011(Linker, , 2012(Linker, , 2013; and others (Benjamin, 2015;Dixon, 2003;Gilman, 2014;Ingham, Mohr, Walker, and Mabey, 2013;Moffatt, 2012;Morus, 1999;Wikström-Grotell, Broberg, Ahonen, and Eriksson, 2013;Yoshida, 2013). However, we have no public historians of physiotherapy history like Roy Porter (Porter, 1990(Porter, , 1997, and it is rare to see historians outside the profession itself showing an interest in physiotherapy's development as a profession, as we have seen elsewhere (Borthwick, 1999;Bacon and Borthwick, 2012;Fournier, 2002;Nettleton, 1992Nettleton, , 1994Rose, 1996Rose, , 2001Saks, 2001Saks, , 2003.…”