Multilingual healthcare : a global view on communicative challenges

Hohenstein, Christiane; Lévy-Tödter, Magdalène

doi:10.1007/978-3-658-27120-6

Publication type:	Book
Type of review:	Editorial review
Title:	Multilingual healthcare : a global view on communicative challenges
et. al:	No
Editors:	Hohenstein, Christiane Lévy-Tödter, Magdalène
DOI:	10.1007/978-3-658-27120-6
Extent:	347
Issue Date:	2020
Edition:	1. Auflage
Series:	FOM-Edition
Publisher / Ed. Institution:	Springer
Publisher / Ed. Institution:	Wiesbaden
ISBN:	978-3-658-27119-0 978-3-658-27120-6
Language:	English
Subjects:	Medical communication; Multilingual healthcare
Subject (DDC):	404.2: Bilingualism and multilingualism 610: Medicine and health
Abstract:	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.
URI:	https://digitalcollection.zhaw.ch/handle/11475/22131
Fulltext version:	Published version
License (according to publishing contract):	Licence according to publishing contract
Departement:	Applied Linguistics
Organisational Unit:	Institute of Language Competence (ILC)
Appears in collections:	Publikationen Angewandte Linguistik

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Hohenstein, C., & Lévy-Tödter, M. (2020). Multilingual healthcare : a global view on communicative challenges (1. Auflage). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-27120-6

Hohenstein, C. and Lévy-Tödter, M. (eds) (2020) Multilingual healthcare : a global view on communicative challenges. 1. Auflage. Wiesbaden: Springer. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-27120-6.

C. Hohenstein and M. Lévy-Tödter, Eds., Multilingual healthcare : a global view on communicative challenges, 1. Auflage. Wiesbaden: Springer, 2020. doi: 10.1007/978-3-658-27120-6.

HOHENSTEIN, Christiane und Magdalène LÉVY-TÖDTER (Hrsg.), 2020. Multilingual healthcare : a global view on communicative challenges, 2020. 1. Auflage. Wiesbaden: Springer. ISBN 978-3-658-27119-0

Hohenstein, Christiane, and Magdalène Lévy-Tödter, eds. 2020. Multilingual Healthcare : A Global View on Communicative Challenges. 1. Auflage. Wiesbaden: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-27120-6.

Hohenstein, Christiane, and Magdalène Lévy-Tödter, editors. Multilingual Healthcare : A Global View on Communicative Challenges. 1. Auflage, Springer, 2020, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-27120-6.