World Languages

Written for health professionals in contact with Spanish-speaking patients, this beginning/intermediate level book is based on modern linguistic methodologies.

• readers learn to elicit patient information by means of different interview styles, in turn viewing illness from the multi-facted perspectives of Latino patients.

• develops the cultural concepts of illness systematically by means of readings (dialogues, cultural notes, interviews) and illustrations.

• includes written exercises, as well as oral — providing different approaches to the use of Spanish in diverse medical contexts.

• footnotes assist in decoding particularly difficult grammatical constructions.

• dialogues with the most commonly used medical phrases appear on cassette tapes which accompany the text.

• includes fifty illustrations depicting medical vocabulary and cross-cultural concepts.

1. Anatomía, sintomas Y enfermedades.


2. Introducción a las tecnicas de entrevistas.


3. La Historia Médica General.


4. La entrevista con apertura cultural.


5. Historias médicas especializadas.


6. La salud mental de los pacientes Latinos.


7. El reconocimiento físico.


8. La communicación intercultural.

Medical Spanish (Spanish)

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• Package ISBN-10: 0205707939 | ISBN-13: 9780205707935
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• Medical Spanish: Interviewing the Latino Patient - A Cross Cultural Perspective, 1/E
  Gonzalez-Lee | ©1990 | Prentice Hall | Paper; 256 pages
  
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