Translation and knowledge mediation in medical and health settings Guest

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

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) are invited:
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

More details at: www.lans-tts.be