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Multilingual Healthcare - A Global View on Communicative Challenges (Paperback, 1st ed. 2020)
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Multilingual Healthcare - A Global View on Communicative Challenges (Paperback, 1st ed. 2020)
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This volume is the first to address multilingual healthcare
communication around the globe and focuses on institutional, social
and linguistic challenges and resources of the healthcare industry.
It comprises studies from Canada, Australia, South Africa,
Greenland, Italy, Germany, Switzerland and Belgium, and aims to
introduce new paths of communicative and methodological agendas,
casting a critical view on current linguistic practices in
healthcare, nursing and medical interactions. With increased
personal mobility in a global society, the need for multilingual
staff is on the rise in medical institutions and healthcare
organisations, and communicative competencies and practices
involving different languages pose challenges for medical doctors,
healthcare staff and patients alike. Many studies have highlighted
the crucial role played by interpreters and interpreting staff, but
the diversity of language situations in different countries
requires very different approaches and solutions. Additionally, it
may not be possible to develop a single agenda of language services
for different medical areas with different needs for counselling,
with various forms of treatment that require explanation and the
patient's informed consent and with varying approaches to the
relationship between medical professionals and patients. How to
best organise medical (digital) language services in countries as
different as South Africa, Greenland, Germany, Belgium and
Australia calls for a diversity of possible solutions. The current
volume makes a variety of such solutions and practices available
for medical staff and healthcare institutions faced with
international patients and working with international medical
staff. It makes the challenges palpable on an international scale
in a way that comparisons may be drawn between different solutions
as well as their socio-cultural and institutional implications.
This volume is intended for policy makers, medical and healthcare
practitioners, institutions, interpreters, teachers and students in
professional multilingual healthcare.
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