Resumen

GARCIA FRANCO, Vilma; VARGAS YZQUIERDO, Jorge; HERNANDEZ CABEZAS, Marilys  y  PEREZ QUINTANA, Mirian. Esthetics and the professional practice in health. Educ Med Super [online]. 2014, vol.28, n.3, pp. 579-586. ISSN 1561-2902.

The human activity supposes a process in that the man believes the conditions of his existence and development, transforming the in agreement reality to his necessities and interests. In the different activities they are formed the properties and psychic qualities of character general used as base for the individual's multilateral development, inside them the aesthetic ⁽¹⁾ capacity. For the professionals of health, the aesthetic attitude in front of the reality cannot be other people's, considering that its fundamental activity is directed to the maintenance and preservation of the human well-being. A review of the literature on aesthetics and sense of beauty applied to occupational health practice is conducted. The tendency toward the beautiful thing doesn't constitute only an ideal necessity but rather he/she transforms into a means for the transformation of the reality starting from an aesthetic ideal conceived ahead of time and conditioned historical and socioculturally. The professional of the health is not other people's in her activity to manifest an aesthetic attitude that evidences her formation in that sense. This attitude is manifested in the interrelation fellow. object. The aesthetic attitude and the search of the beauty influence in all the spheres of the human life, revealing in a very individual and characteristic way of to feel and to perceive the elements of the reality that have significance for the fellow. In the process of the medical practice an aesthetic attitude appears, mediated by the ideal of prevailing beauty, in the professional interrelation of the health-patient one.

Palabras clave : aesthetic attitude; i like aesthetic; medical practice.

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