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Healthcare faces immense challenges. Ensuring both clinicians and the public remain healthy to negotiate a world of increasing complexity, misinformation and uncertainty is urgent. Does scientific knowledge help them do this?
In Thinking, healthcare professionals and researchers Brown, Harvey Bluemel, and Coccia explore how philosophy can help us think differently about health. Drawing from history, culture, literature, and lived experience, they trace the deep connections between ideas, healing, and human flourishing. Each chapter offers accessible explanations of key philosophical ideas, with examples and exercises to help readers bring those ideas into their own lives.
This book invites readers to slow down and give thinking the attention it deserves. Thinking is a guide, but also an invitation to ask better questions; make space for reflection; and to rediscover the value of thought in an age that prizes speed and certainty over depth and understanding.
Effortless, thought-provoking and thoroughly enjoyable.
— Dr Steven Brown
Strong command of the subject matter and willingness to express it accessibly.
— Professor Tim Dornan
Megan E.L. Brown, PhD, MBBS(H), PgCert, FHEA is a Senior Research Fellow within the School of Medicine at Newcastle University.
Anna Harvey Bluemel is a postgraduate doctor in training in the North East of England, where she combines specialty training in obstetrics and gynaecology with research in clinical education.
Camillo Coccia is a post graduate trainee in General Medicine in the Republic of Ireland.
Chapter 1. What is Thinking?
Chapter 2. How is Philosophy the “Art of Thinking”?
Chapter 3. A (very) Potted History of the Philosophy of Thinking and Knowing
Chapter 4. The Long Relationship between Philosophy and Health
Chapter 5. Thinking Across Cultures
Chapter 6. Philosophy and Health Today
Chapter 7. The More you Know, The More you Know you don’t Know
Chapter 8. How can I Engage with Philosophy Today?
Chapter 9. Conclusion