Healthcare interpreting

Letizia Cirillo
University of Siena
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Healthcare interpreting – also called Medical interpreting – is a specific type of Community interpreting occurring whenever healthcare service users and providers need to communicate but do not share the same language. This is a common circumstance in a “superdiverse” society, in which medical tourism, doctor and patient mobility, and migration have been steadily growing (Angelelli 2019).

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References

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Further essential reading

Angelelli, Claudia
2004a Medical Interpreting and Cross-Cultural Communication. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. DOI logoGoogle Scholar
Angelelli, Claudia V.
2004b Revisiting the Interpreter’s Role. A Study of Conference, Court, and Medical Interpreters in Canada, Mexico and the United States. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. DOI logoGoogle Scholar
Ji, Meng, Mustapha Taibi, and Ineke H. M. Crezee
(eds) 2019 Multicultural Health Translation, Interpreting and Communication. London: Routledge. DOI logoGoogle Scholar
Nicodemus, Brenda, and Melanie Metzger
(eds) 2014 Investigations in Healthcare Interpreting. Washington, DC: Gallaudet University Press. Google Scholar
Pöchhacker, Franz, and Miriam Shlesinger
(eds) 2007 Healthcare Interpreting. Discourse and Interaction. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. DOI logoGoogle Scholar