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Babel, Justice, and Democracy: Reflections on a Shortage of Interpreters at a Public Hospital
Author(s) -
DWYER JAMES
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
hastings center report
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.515
H-Index - 63
eISSN - 1552-146X
pISSN - 0093-0334
DOI - 10.2307/3528499
Subject(s) - democracy , interpreter , economic justice , economic shortage , political science , sociology , law , medicine , linguistics , philosophy , politics , computer science , programming language , government (linguistics)
When a doctor sees a patient, answers to a few questions can be crucial. So what to do when no one at the hospital speaks the patient's language? Doctors can often devise creative, makeshift ways of communicating with their patients, but the problem calls ultimately for a creative organizational response.