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

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Tom Grimwood

Against Critical Thinking in Health, Social Care and Social Work

Reframing Philosophy for Professional Practice

Tom Grimwood

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Routledge
18 December 2024

Philosophy; Social theory; Social work; Medicine

Series: Routledge Advances in Social Work

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 their practice. But given how many of these challenges pose significant problems for the theories that these subjects have traditionally drawn upon, should we now be critical of critical thinking – its assumptions, its basis and its aspirations – itself? Arguing that health and social work theory must reconsider its deep-rooted assumptions about criticality in order to navigate complex neoliberalism, post-truth and the relationship between language and late capitalism, it examines how the fusion of theory and practice can re-imagine critical thinking for health, social care and social work. It will be of interest to all scholars, students and professionals of social work and health and social care.

By: Tom Grimwood
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 330g
ISBN: 9780367642372
ISBN 10: 0367642379
Series: Routledge Advances in Social Work
Pages: 166
Publication Date: 18 December 2024
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

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).