Against critical thinking in health, social care and social work: reframing philosophy for professional practice

Grimwood, Tom ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8099-6191 (2023) Against critical thinking in health, social care and social work: reframing philosophy for professional practice. Routledge, Abingdon, UK.

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Abstract

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 and social work in social work. It will be of interest to all scholars, students and professionals of social work and health and social care.

Item Type:	Book
Publisher:	Routledge
ISBN:	9780367642358
Departments:	Centre for Research in Health and Society (CRIHS) Health and Society Knowledge Exchange (HASKE) Institute of Health > Psychology and Psychological Therapies
Additional Information:	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).
Depositing User:	Tom Grimwood
Date Deposited:	18 Sep 2023 14:24
Last Modified:	24 Apr 2024 16:55
URI:	https://insight.cumbria.ac.uk/id/eprint/6986

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