The Routledge Handbook of Translation and Health [Paperback]

Providing a bridge between translation studies and the burgeoning field of health humanities, which seeks novel ways of understanding health and illness, this timely handbook is an indispensable resource for all students and researchers of translation and health within translation and interpreting studies, as well as medical and health humanities.

Acknowledgements

List of Contributors

Introduction

Beyond Translation and Medicine: Initiating Exchanges between Translation Studies and Health Humanities

Part I - Travels of Medicine from Ancient to Modern Times

1. Medical Translations from Greek Into Arabic and Hebrew

 

2. Translations of Western Medical Texts in East Asia in the Second Half of the 19th and Early 20th Centuries

 

3. Dissemination of Academic Medical Research Through Translation Throughout History and in Contemporary World

 

Part II - Translation in Medicine and Medical Sciences

4. Medical Terminology and Discourse

 

5. Quality, Accessibility and Readability in Medical Translation

 

6. Inter- and Intralingual Translation of Medical Information - the Importance of Comprehensibility

 

7. Machine Translation in Healthcare

 

8. Medical Humanities and Translation

 

9. Knowledge Translation

 

Part III - Translation and Interpreting in Healthcare Settings

10. Community/Liaison Interpreting in Healthcare Settings