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Tag Archives: Morals
The Artist, the Scientist and the Doctor in Each of Us
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
By Francesca Dickson |
Posted in Insights, Transform
Tagged Center for Innovation, CFI, Decision Making, Moral, Moral Science, Morality, Morals, Science, symposium, Transform
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Thinking About Life, Death and Design at Transform 2010
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
By Francesca Dickson |
Posted in Transform
Tagged Center for Innovation, CFI, Decision Making, Design, Design Thinking, Innovation, Moral, Morality, Morals, symposium, Transform
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A Sock, A Clown’s Story and Other Tales of Health and Care
What do we mean by the word “health?” Can there be different definitions of health in different countries, states and regions around the world? If that is the case, how then can we learn important lessons from each other about how to stay healthy, as we must?
Hardly a symposium of limited ambition, “Transform 2010: Thinking Differently About Health Care,” sponsored by the Mayo Clinic’s Center for Innovation, hosted a group of speakers who took on such big questions. Continue reading
By Francesca Dickson |
Posted in Transform
Tagged Center for Innovation, CFI, Change, Health, Health Care, Healthcare, Humanity, Innovation, Morals, symposium, Transform
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