Aesthetics for everyday quality: one way to enrich healthcare improvement debates.

TY - JOUR

T1 - Aesthetics for everyday quality:

T2 - one way to enrich healthcare improvement debates.

AU - Cribb, Alan

AU - Pullin, Graham

PY - 2022/1/17

Y1 - 2022/1/17

N2 - In this paper we seek to illuminate the importance of aesthetics for healthcare quality and encourage more explicit discussion of aesthetics in healthcare improvement scholarship and practice. We hope to contribute to and help develop the hinterland between arts-based initiatives in healthcare and the ‘normal business’ of healthcare quality improvement. Our broad contention is: (i) that aesthetic considerations should be seen as of universal relevance across quality debates (ii) that they never be assumed to have a marginal or even secondary status; and (iii) that taking aesthetic considerations seriously calls for explicit discussion of associated uncertainties and dilemmas and a readiness to welcome aesthetics expertise into improvement debates.

AB - In this paper we seek to illuminate the importance of aesthetics for healthcare quality and encourage more explicit discussion of aesthetics in healthcare improvement scholarship and practice. We hope to contribute to and help develop the hinterland between arts-based initiatives in healthcare and the ‘normal business’ of healthcare quality improvement. Our broad contention is: (i) that aesthetic considerations should be seen as of universal relevance across quality debates (ii) that they never be assumed to have a marginal or even secondary status; and (iii) that taking aesthetic considerations seriously calls for explicit discussion of associated uncertainties and dilemmas and a readiness to welcome aesthetics expertise into improvement debates.

KW - arts in health/ arts and health; medical humanities; philosophy of medicine; healthcare education

M3 - Article

SN - 1468-215X

JO - Medical Humanities

JF - Medical Humanities

ER -