CALL FOR PAPERS : Translation and knowledge mediation in medical and health settings

CALL FOR PAPERS (extended deadline; for more details see: www.lans-tts.be)

Translation and knowledge mediation in medical and health settings

Guest editors: Vicent Montalt (Universitat Jaume I, Spain) & Mark Shuttleworth (Imperial College, UK)

We invite proposals dealing with one or more of the following possible tracks and are happy to include papers dealing with translation, technical writing, communication and community interpreting (in a medical context):

1. Knowledge mediation/translation between researchers and health professionals
2. Knowledge mediation/translation between researchers and patients
3. Knowledge mediation/translation between health professionals and patients
4. Knowledge mediation/translation between researchers and the general public
5. Knowledge mediation/translation between health professionals and the general public
6. Cultural issues in knowledge mediation/translation, such as different ways of conceptualizing health, disease, pain, risk, safety, etc.
7. Medical knowledge mediation/translation at specific moments of history
8. Heterofunctional/transgeneric translation in medical knowledge mediation

Deadline for proposals: 10 August 2011
 

Please send your proposals to

• Vicent Montalt,Universitat Jaume I, Castelló, Spain: montalt@trad.uji.es 
• Mark Shuttleworth, Imperial College, UK: m.shuttleworth@imperial.ac.uk