Healthcare Interpreting Explained
eBook - ePub

Healthcare Interpreting Explained

  1. 202 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Healthcare Interpreting Explained

About this book

Healthcare Interpreting Explained is the first comprehensive user-friendly book on the practice of medical/healthcare interpreting. Written by a leading world authority and drawing on research carried out in Europe, the United States, Australia and Asia, this process-focussed text goes beyond terms and concepts to cover medical discourse, ethics and protocol, professionalization, cognitive factors, problem-solving strategies, assessment and more. Including summaries, tasks, further reading and a range of real-world examples, as well as audio files on the Translation Studies Portal, this is the essential text for all students and practicing interpreters in the areas of medical and healthcare interpreting.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Series page
  4. Title
  5. Copyright
  6. Dedication
  7. Contents
  8. List of figures
  9. Permissions
  10. About this book
  11. Using this book
  12. Acknowledgments
  13. 1 Introduction to the professional practice of healthcare interpreting
  14. 2 Understanding the healthcare setting and its language provision policy
  15. 3 Understanding interpreter-mediated communication in healthcare
  16. 4 Understanding content and form in interpreter-mediated medical communication
  17. 5 Skills and competencies: receptive skills
  18. 6 Skills and competencies: productive skills
  19. 7 Understanding the role of healthcare interpreters
  20. 8 Ethics in interpreter-mediated medical communication
  21. Glossary
  22. Index

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