@inbook{3c8b6b8a53034dd49e37347a80df7703,
title = "Aesthetics for Everyday Quality: Enriching Health-Care Improvement Debates",
abstract = "In this chapter we seek to illuminate the importance of aesthetics for health-care quality and encourage more explicit discussion of aesthetics in health-care improvement scholarship and practice. Drawing on the {\textquoteleft}everyday aesthetics{\textquoteright} literature, we hope to contribute to and help develop the hinterland between arts-based initiatives in health care and the {\textquoteleft}normal business{\textquoteright} of health-care quality improvement. Our broad contention is: (i) that aesthetic considerations should be seen as of universal relevance across quality debates; (ii) that they should 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 health-care improvement debates.",
keywords = "everyday aesthetics, health-care quality, improvement, materiality, sociality, dilemmas",
author = "Alan Cribb and Graham Pullin",
note = "{\textcopyright} Oxford University Press 2025",
year = "2025",
month = jan,
day = "17",
doi = "10.1093/oxfordhb/9780192866929.013.63",
language = "English",
isbn = "9780192866929",
pages = "776--796",
editor = "Martin Poltrum and Michael Musalek and Kathleen Galvin and Yuriko Saito",
booktitle = "The Oxford Handbook of Mental Health and Contemporary Western Aesthetics",
publisher = "Oxford University Press",
address = "United Kingdom",
}