Transcultural mediation: “A clinic of the word and the other”

Published on : 05/04/2022 – 11:48

Like society, the hospital is a meeting place for patients with multiple identities and languages, each with a unique relationship to illness and death.

How to identify the clinical cases for which transcultural mediation is relevant? How can we define this particular clinic as simply as possible?

• Dr. Catherine Lewertowski, doctor, specialist in transcultural clinic. Constituency manager in the service of Maternal and Child Protection of the Departmental Council of Seine-Saint-Denis. Co-author of the book When spirits come to doctors: 7 stories for healing, published by In Press. Author of numerous books including The children of Moissac, 1939-1945history fields collection, Flammarion.

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