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

Alan Cribb; Graham Pullin

doi:10.1136/medhum-2021-012330

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

Alan Cribb (Lead / Corresponding author)
, Graham Pullin

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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: (1) That aesthetic considerations should be seen as of universal relevance across quality debates (2) That they never be assumed to have a marginal or even secondary status; and (3) That taking aesthetic considerations seriously calls for explicit discussion of associated uncertainties and dilemmas and a readiness to welcome aesthetics expertise into improvement debates.

Original language	English
Article number	012330
Number of pages	9
Journal	Medical Humanities
Volume	48
Issue number	4
Early online date	24 Feb 2022
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1136/medhum-2021-012330
Publication status	Published - 23 Nov 2022

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