Published in 2/2023 - Care

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Architecture of Care in a Welfare State

Hanna Tyvelä

A child receives a triple vaccine in a health care clinic in Kuusamo in 1961. Photo: Finnish Heritage Agency

Finns have alternately built and dismantled the welfare state, depending on political power relations. Architecture has played a key role when goals have been brought to practice.

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