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Teachers, nurses, psychotherapists, and other practitioners of care are under pressure to substitute specific, prescribed techniques in place of using their own judgment. Donald e. Polkinghorne assembles the case for the return to judgment-based practice for the professions that engage in direct person-to-person interaction with those they serve. Set in the large context of the technification of society, Polkinghorne draws from Weber, Heidegger, Ihde, Bourdieu, de Certeau, and other philosophers to trace the advancing power of the technological worldview in Western culture and uses Aristotle, Dewey, and Gadamer to help make his case that we should be doing things very differently.

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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Social services & welfare, criminology Social welfare & social services

• Full title: Practice and the Human Sciences
• Subtitle: The Case for a Judgment-based Practice of Care
• Author: Donald Polkinghorne
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 224
• EAN: 9780791461990
• ID: 04702151
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Weight: 440 g
• Dimensions: 236 × 152 × 17 mm
• Date of publishing: 02. August 2004

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