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Against Critical Thinking in Health, Social Care and Social Work: Reframing Philosophy for Professional Practice book cover

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Against Critical Thinking in Health, Social Care and Social Work Reframing Philosophy for Professional Practice

By Tom Grimwood Copyright 2024
176 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

176 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

176 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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This book stages a provocative dialogue between social work, health and social care and contemporary philosophy in order to inform theory and practice in a complex and challenging world. Today, the social world is marked by deep-rooted complexities, tensions and challenges. Health workers and social workers are constantly reminded to employ critical thinking to navigate this world through... Read more

Introduction: against critical thinking?  1.Critical atmospheres: where are we now with facts, critique and care?  2.The rhetoric of urgency: tensions between critique and practice.  3.Autonomy, critique, and consensus.  4.Placing the review under review: reconciling critique with assemblage in safeguarding reviews.  5.The power of critique: looking back and forwards with Foucault.  6.The vulnerability of critique.

Biography

Tom Grimwood is Professor of Social Philosophy at the University of Cumbria, where he leads the Health and Society Knowledge Exchange (HASKE) within the Centre for Research in Health and Society. He is the author of The Problem with Stupid: Ignorance, Intellectuals, Post-Truth and Resistance (2023), The Shock of the Same: An Anti-Philosophy of Clichés (2020) and Key Debates in Social Work and Philosophy (Routledge, 2016).

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