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Varela Salinas, María José and Bernd Meyer, eds. 2015. Translating and Interpreting Healthcare Discourses / Traducir e interpretar en el ámbito sanitario (TransÜD: Arbeiten zur Theorie und Praxis des Übersetzens und Dolmetschens 79). Berlin: Frank & Timme. 368 pp.
Publication type
Edited volume
Publication language
English
Keywords
interpreter=interpreter's role | interpreting | medical discourse=medical sciences=medicine | medical translation=medical
Main ISBN
9783865963673

Abstract

Because of the increasing number of patients with limited language proficiency due to immigration in many countries, the need for healthcare interpreters and translators has grown swiftly in the last decade. This book gathers contributions by researchers, practitioners and trainers in translation and interpreting in healthcare situations.
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Articles in this volume

Acuña Partal, Carmen. La aportación de Cádiz a la historia de la traducción médica en la España del siglo XIX [The contribution of Cadiz to the history of medical translation in nineteenth-century Spain]. 17–30
Postigo Pinazo, Encarnación. En busca de una interpretación de calidad en el ámbito sanitario [In search of quality interpreting in the field of healthcare]. 31–57
Herreweghe, Mieke Van. Sign language interpretation in health care situations in Flanders. 59–75
Fiola, Marco André. Medical Interpreting in Canada: a beacon or a glimmer of hope? 77–95
Muñoz, Jean. Para una estrategia de la interpretación en ambiente hospitalario: el caso de la Polinesia [Towards a strategy for interpretation in hospitals: the case of Polynesia]. 97–114
Martín Plaza, Elena. Traducción e interpretación ante una alerta sanitaria internacional [Translation and interpretation in case of an international health alert]. 115–131
Barceló Martínez, Tanagua. La traducción juradade textos biosanitarios [The sworn translation of biomedical texts]. 133–155
Ortega Arjonilla, Emilio. Algunas reflexiones teórico-prácticas sobre la traducción de textos médicos especializados del francés al español [Some theoretical-practical reflections on the translation of specialized medical texts from French into Spanish]. 157–185
Belén Martínez López, Ana. About the practice of translating specialized medical texts from English into Spanish. 187–200
García Esteban, Ana Isabel and María José Varela Salinas. El accidente cerebrovascular (ACV) y su tratamiento terminológico desde la perspectiva fisioterápica: creación de un glosario básico español-ingles [Cerebrovascular accident (CVA) and its terminological treatment from a physiotherapeutic perspective: creating a basic glossary Spanish-English]. 201–224
Pradas Macías, Esperanza Macarena and María José Varela Salinas. Applying a linguistic analysis model for identifying specialised texts: the example of the clinical history. 225–248

Reviewed by

Plaza Lara, Cristina. 2016. Review of Translating and Interpreting Healthcare Discourses / Traducir e interpretar en el ámbito sanitario. In d’Angelis, Antonella, Estefanía Flores Acuña and Francisco Núñez-Román, eds. Insights in Translation for Specific Purposes. Special issue of Translation and Translanguaging in Multilingual Contexts 2 (1): 167–169.
Montalt, Vicent. 2017. Review of Translating and Interpreting Healthcare Discourses / Traducir e interpretar en el ámbito sanitario. JoSTrans 28 : 400–401.