Medical jargon: Ethnography of language in a hospital library

Medical Reference Services Quarterly

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 41-47

  Shultz, Suzanne M ^a  

^a YORK HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HUMAN; LIBRARY; LINGUISTICS; PUBLIC RELATIONS; UNITED STATES;

ANTHROPOLOGY, CULTURAL; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HUMANS; INTERPROFESSIONAL RELATIONS; LIBRARIES, HOSPITAL; LINGUISTICS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0030236831     PISSN: 02763869     EISSN: 15409597     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1300/J115V15N03_04     Document Type: Article

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