Role-blurring and ethical grey zones associated with lay interpreters: Three case studies

Communication and Medicine

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 73-80

  Brua, Charles ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Constraints on healthcare access; Immigrants from the former Soviet Union; Limited linguistic accommodation; Non professional interpreters

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMMUNICATION DISORDER; ETHNOLOGY; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; MIGRATION; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; UKRAINE; UNITED STATES;

COMMUNICATION BARRIERS; EMIGRANTS AND IMMIGRANTS; HUMANS; MULTILINGUALISM; RUSSIA; TRANSLATING; UKRAINE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 77952969545     PISSN: 16121783     EISSN: 16133625     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1558/cam.v5i1.73     Document Type: Article

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