Babel, justice, and democracy: Reflections on a shortage of interpreters at a public hospital

Hasting Center Report

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 31-36

  Dwyer, James ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMMUNICATION DISORDER; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; ETHNIC GROUP; HUMAN; INSTITUTIONAL ETHICS; LANGUAGE; MEDICAL ETHICS; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PUBLIC HOSPITAL; SOCIAL JUSTICE;

COMMUNICATION BARRIERS; CULTURAL DIVERSITY; EFFICIENCY, ORGANIZATIONAL; ETHICS, INSTITUTIONAL; ETHICS, MEDICAL; ETHNIC GROUPS; HOSPITAL-PATIENT RELATIONS; HOSPITALS, PUBLIC; HUMANS; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; SOCIAL JUSTICE; TRANSLATING;

EID: 0035291777     PISSN: 00930334     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3528499     Document Type: Article

References (7)

1. Unpublished study by Lewis Goldfrank and colleagues.
2. Christopher Taurani and Damara Gutnick deserve credit for this case.
3. R. Fullinwider, "Civil Society and Democratic Citizenship," Philosophy and Public Policy 18, no. 3 (1998), 1-2, at p. 2.
4. See A. de Tocqueville, Democracy in America (New York: Doubleday & Company, 1969);
5. V. Havel, Summer Meditations (New York: Knopf, 1992)
6. and R. Putnam, Bowling Alone (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2000).
7. J. Mill, On Liberty (Indianapolis, Ind.: Hackett Publishing Company, 1978), p. 108.