
An Introduction to Medical Spanish
Communication and Culture
Yale University Press
5th Edition
Published on 8. January 2019
Book
Paperback/Softback
480 pages
978-0-300-22602-7 (ISBN)
Description
The updated, fifth edition of the widely used introductory Spanish textbook designed specifically for health care professionals
Nurses, physicians, dentists, and other health care professionals increasingly need to communicate with patients in Spanish. Formerly titled An Introduction to Spanish for Health Care Workers, the fifth edition of this popular textbook is designed for students with little or no formal background in Spanish. It uses text, audio, video, classroom activities, and electronic exercises to teach basic grammar, specialized medical vocabulary, and colloquial terms as well as customs and communication styles. An interactive companion website features video clips that demonstrate practitioner-patient interactions and offers self-correcting exercises, an audio program, and flash cards.
The fifth edition is also updated with
* New topics, including muscles, pediatrics, heart disease, neurologic exams, and zika
* Nearly 300 classroom activities, including exposition activities to develop the presentational mode of communication
* Expanded vocabulary lists, sorted by frequency
Nurses, physicians, dentists, and other health care professionals increasingly need to communicate with patients in Spanish. Formerly titled An Introduction to Spanish for Health Care Workers, the fifth edition of this popular textbook is designed for students with little or no formal background in Spanish. It uses text, audio, video, classroom activities, and electronic exercises to teach basic grammar, specialized medical vocabulary, and colloquial terms as well as customs and communication styles. An interactive companion website features video clips that demonstrate practitioner-patient interactions and offers self-correcting exercises, an audio program, and flash cards.
The fifth edition is also updated with
* New topics, including muscles, pediatrics, heart disease, neurologic exams, and zika
* Nearly 300 classroom activities, including exposition activities to develop the presentational mode of communication
* Expanded vocabulary lists, sorted by frequency
More details
Edition
5th Revised edition
Language
English
Spanish
Place of publication
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
Revised edition
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
186 b-w illus.
Dimensions
Height: 254 mm
Width: 178 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
Weight
726 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-300-22602-7 (9780300226027)
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Previous edition

Robert O. Chase | Clarisa B. Medina de Chase
An Introduction to Spanish for Health Care Workers
Communication and Culture, Fourth Edition
Book
09/2014
4th Edition
Yale University Press
€74.28
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Persons
Robert O. Chase teaches Spanish at Connecticut community and four-year colleges. He and Clarisa B. Medina de Chase have a combined fifty years of experience using Spanish in their work at medical and psychiatric hospitals and exploring the many cultures of Latin America. They live in Berlin, CT.