Tag Archives: Morality

The Artist, the Scientist and the Doctor in Each of Us

September 20th, 2010 - 10:09 am

What is immensely hopeful is that the new science of morality offers a foundational, empirical, legitimizing rationale for health care designers to ply their trade.

Instead of being seen merely as artists whose skills are primarily aesthetic, or even simply decorative, the new science of morality connects design principles directly to the life and death matter of human healing. The affinity of aesthetics and morality, once celebrated mainly by poets, artists and philosophers, is now a proven scientific fact.

Viewed through the lens of this new perspective on human nature, designers should and must be regarded as full and active collaborators in the health care process. Continue reading →

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Thinking About Life, Death and Design at Transform 2010

September 17th, 2010 - 11:15 am

More than anything, the recent two-day symposium at Mayo Clinic – “Transform 2010—Thinking Differently about Health Care” – got me reflecting about how we make moral decisions as human beings.

This question was to me the sparkling golden thread running through the symposium’s 42 brilliant presentations offered by clinicians, surgeons, nurses, computer programmers, human rights activists, inventors, social workers and many others who brought their mighty passion for healing to bear on a single stubborn problem – the conundrum of human suffering. Continue reading →

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