Aesthetics for Everyday Quality: Enriching Health-Care Improvement Debates

Alan Cribb, Graham Pullin

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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 ‘everyday aesthetics’ literature, we hope to contribute to and help develop the hinterland between arts-based initiatives in health care and the ‘normal business’ 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.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationThe Oxford Handbook of Mental Health and Contemporary Western Aesthetics
EditorsMartin Poltrum, Michael Musalek, Kathleen Galvin, Yuriko Saito
Place of PublicationGlasgow
PublisherOxford University Press
Chapter42
Pages776-796
Number of pages21
ISBN (Electronic)9780191957857
ISBN (Print)9780192866929
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 17 Jan 2025

Keywords

  • everyday aesthetics
  • health-care quality
  • improvement
  • materiality
  • sociality
  • dilemmas

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