Brilliant care: a conceptual argument for scholarship of the extraordinary

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Abstract

Critiques of healthcare often focus on negative experiences to address gaps, issues, and problems. While important, this often obscures care that exceeds expectation - that is, brilliant care. This article centres brilliant care by considering the questions that might be asked to surface it, and what might happen when brilliant care is centred. Specifically, a conceptual understanding of brilliant care is extended within health sociology. In doing so, the article draws on Mol's research on the logic of care, Fredrickson's broaden-and-build theory, and Hochschild's notion of emotion work. Through an application of this conceptual framework to secondary data - namely, reported stories of healthcare experiences from the series 'What's right in health care' - the article demonstrates how the framework surfaces and illuminates aspects of brilliance and its emergence. The article concludes by considering the implications this has on how we make sense of healthcare and the positive, social, and relational aspects that might be surfaced in current and future practices.
Original languageEnglish
Number of pages15
JournalHealth Sociology Review
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2024

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© 2024 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way. The terms on which this article has been published allow the posting of the Accepted Manuscript in a repository by the author(s) or with their consent.

Keywords

  • Brillance care
  • logic of care
  • emotion work
  • knowledge translation
  • broaden-and-build theory

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