Words for Care: Literature, Healthcare and Democracy

Words for Care: Literature, Healthcare and Democracy investigates the meanings of literature and shared reading in the context of multilingual healthcare. The project brings together narrative medicine and cultural language learning for the first time. We are developing multilingual narrative medicine practices and studying the potential of reading groups to enhance narrative, cultural and linguistic competence, as well as the social inclusion of social and healthcare professionals who speak Finnish as a first or as a foreign language.

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