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Language and Health – Ethical and Policy Issues
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Centre Mont-Royal, Montreal, Quebec
June 17-18, 2016
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For almost a decade Health Canada has been funding important and innovative research on linguistic issues in healthcare provision, through the HCALM (Health Care Access for Linguistic Minorities) Network – an interdisciplinary and interinstitutional community of researchers. The project comprises the research capacity of the larger Training and Retention of Health Professionals Project, based at the Institute for Health and Social Policy at Ï㽶ÊÓƵ.
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The HCALM-Network now invites submissions for its 2016 annual conference on the topic of ‘Language and Health – Ethical and Policy Issues’. Language and health are interrelated in myriad of ways, ranging from issues of healthcare provision in multilingual societies, to health literacy and communication among patients, practitioners and policymakers, and to discourses of health and wellbeing. In accordance with the strong interdisciplinary nature of the HCALM-Network’s community of researchers, the conference welcomes submissions which bring together theories, frameworks, concepts and methods from a broad range of disciplines in the medical sciences, social sciences and the humanities. Similarly, it invites submissions that address the significant ethical and policy issues at the interface of public health and language policy, including:
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·ÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌý Healthcare provision in multilingual and multicultural societies
·ÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌý Language and the social determinants of health
·ÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌý Health communication, interpretation and (il)literacy
·ÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌý Sign languages and health
·ÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌý Language and mental health
·ÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌý Language, health and technology
·ÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌý Language regimes and health systems
·ÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌý Global English and global health
·ÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌý Cross-linguistic and cross-cultural conceptions of health and illness
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The list is suggestive rather than exhaustive, and the convenors welcome papers that explore any pertinent issues relating to the topic of the conference.
Abstracts (app. 300 words) should be sent to Daniel Weinstock (daniel.weinstock2 [at] mcgill.ca) and Yael Peled (yael.peled [at] mcgill.ca). The deadline for submissions isÌýDecember 31, 2015.
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