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  • 18 - Translating Medical Texts

  • from Part IV - Translation in Practice: Factual Genres
  • Edited by Kirsten Malmkjær, University of Leicester
  • Book:
    The Cambridge Handbook of Translation
    Published online:
    10 March 2022
    Print publication:
    17 March 2022, pp 363-378

  • Summary

    Chapter 18 charts the history of medical translation and developments in the field. It introduces the main genres and target groups and discusses important challenges that medical translators face. The shift from the biomedical paradigm to patient-centredness and patient empowerment means that people want to understand information involving their own health, so that intralingual translation is often required for expert–lay medical translation. The chapter discusses the challenges that such intralingual translation presents, especially when coupled with interlingual translation. The importance of medical ethics in medical translation is also highlighted.