Introduction to Healthcare for Japanese-speaking Interpreters and Translators

Ineke H.M. Crezee

| Auckland University of Technology

Teruko Asano

| Nagoya University of Foreign Studies

Hardbound – Available

ISBN 9789027212412 | EUR 99.00 | USD 149.00

Paperback – Available

ISBN 9789027212429 | EUR 36.00 | USD 54.00

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ISBN 9789027266293 | EUR 99.00/36.00*
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This book is based on the very popular international publication (Crezee, 2013) and has been supplemented with Japanese glossaries. Just like the 2013 textbook, this practical resource will allow interpreters and translators to quickly read up on healthcare settings, familiarizing themselves with anatomy, physiology, medical terminology and frequently encountered conditions, diagnostic tests and treatment options.

This is an exceptionally useful and easily accessible handbook, in particular for English-speaking patients, Japanese-speaking doctors, first-language Japanese-speaking students in healthcare related programs.

This book includes a special chapter on Japan’s shifting social structure and the hierarchies which exist within its medical system and gives concrete examples of patient expectations for hospital stays and physician visits. A further special chapter describes the Japanese insurance system and related regulations in a comprehensive fashion, also discussing standards of third party accreditation. Also included is information regarding the establishment of the Aichi Medical Interpretation System, the first of its kind in Japan, which was launched thanks to the combined efforts of local municipal communities, healthcare organizations and universities in the Aichi Prefecture.

[Not in series, 205] 2016. xxviii, 412 pp.

Publishing status: Available

https://doi.org/10.1075/z.205

Table of Contents

Table of illustrations
List of tables
Authors’ notes
Acknowledgments
Foreword
Foreword to this edition
Part I. Interpreting
Introduction
Interpreting in healthcare settings
The culture of Japanese Medicine

Michelle Henault Morrone
Medical terminology
Part II. Interpreting in healthcare settings
Primary care physicians and General Practitioners
Specialty clinics and Outpatient Clinics
Hospitals
Characteristics of the Japanese Healthcare System

Teruko Asano and Haruka Murai
Emergency Departments or ERs
Informed consent
Pre-operative and post-operative procedures
Intensive care
Obstetrics
Child health
Speech-Language Therapy
Mental health
Oncology
Part III. Healthcare specialties
Neurology: Nerves and the nervous system
Cardiology: Heart and the circulatory system
Pulmonology: The respiratory system
Hematology: Blood and blood disorders
Orthopedics: The skeletal system
Muscles and the motor system
The sensory system
Immunology: The immune and lymphatic systems
Endocrinology: The endocrine system
Gastroenterology: The digestive system
Urology and nephrology: The urinary system
Urology and gynecology
Appendix
Appendix
References
Suggested further readings for Parts II and III
Useful websites

“This practical handbook grows out of the very popular previous international publication Introduction to Healthcare for Interpreters and Translators (Crezee 2013) [...]. This book features precise and concise language, and is very easy to follow. Therefore, it is warmly recommended to the terminologists who specialize in terminology study in healthcare settings and anyone who shows an interest in medical interpreting and translation.”

María-Teresa Ortego-Antón, Universidad de Valladolid, in Terminology 23:3 (2017).

Cited by

Cited by 2 other publications

Crezee, Ineke H.M., Johanna Hautekiet & Lidia Rura

2021. In Introduction to Healthcare for Russian-speaking Interpreters and Translators,

Ng, Eva N.S. & Ineke H.M. Crezee

2020. In Interpreting in Legal and Healthcare Settings [Benjamins Translation Library, 151], ► pp. 1 ff.

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Subjects & Metadata

Linguistics

Japanese linguistics

Translation & Interpreting Studies

Interpreting

Translation Studies

BIC Subject: CFP – Translation & interpretation

BISAC Subject: LAN023000 – LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Translating & Interpreting

ONIX Metadata

ONIX 2.1

ONIX 3.0

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