Introduction to Healthcare for Japanese-speaking Interpreters and Translators

Editors

Ineke H.M. Crezee

Teruko Asano

Hardbound – Available

ISBN 9789027212412 | EUR 99.00 | USD 149.00

Paperback – Available

ISBN 9789027212429 | EUR 36.00 | USD 54.00

e-Book –

ISBN 9789027266293 | EUR 99.00/36.00*
| USD 149.00/54.00*

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 | pp. xix–xxii

Acknowledgments | pp. xxiii–xxiv

Foreword | pp. xxv–xxvi

Foreword to this edition | pp. xxvii–xxviii

Part I. Interpreting

Introduction | pp. 3–10

Interpreting in healthcare settings | pp. 11–22

The culture of Japanese Medicine

Michelle Henault Morrone | pp. 23–28

Medical terminology | pp. 29–38

Part II. Interpreting in healthcare settings

Primary care physicians and General Practitioners | pp. 41–50

Specialty clinics and Outpatient Clinics | pp. 51–54

Hospitals | pp. 55–68

Characteristics of the Japanese Healthcare System

Teruko Asano and Haruka Murai | pp. 69–82

Emergency Departments or ERs | pp. 83–104

Informed consent | pp. 105–108

Pre-operative and post-operative procedures | pp. 109–118

Intensive care | pp. 119–126

Obstetrics | pp. 127–138

Child health | pp. 139–164

Speech-Language Therapy | pp. 165–170

Mental health | pp. 171–182

Oncology | pp. 183–196

Part III. Healthcare specialties

Neurology: Nerves and the nervous system | pp. 199–214

Cardiology: Heart and the circulatory system | pp. 215–232

Pulmonology: The respiratory system | pp. 233–248

Hematology: Blood and blood disorders | pp. 249–262

Orthopedics: The skeletal system | pp. 263–272

Muscles and the motor system | pp. 273–280

The sensory system | pp. 281–294

Immunology: The immune and lymphatic systems | pp. 295–304

Endocrinology: The endocrine system | pp. 305–316

Gastroenterology: The digestive system | pp. 317–332

Urology and nephrology: The urinary system | pp. 333–342

Urology and gynecology | pp. 343–370

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).

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