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

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.

List of contents

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.

About the author

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).

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Tom Grimwood, Grimwood Tom
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 18.12.2024
• EAN: 9780367642372
• ISBN: 978-0-367-64237-2
• No. of pages: 166
• Series: Routledge Advances in Social Work
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy; Medicine, Social Theory, PHILOSOPHY / Social, Philosophy, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Social Work, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Services, Social Work, Medicine and Nursing