About this ebook
This textbook is unique in the market in its cultural perspective focused on the diversity and complexity of the Latino community living in the United States. The book addresses particular health concerns that affect the Hispanic population such as specific illnesses (diabetes type 2, asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, HIV/AIDS, obesity, and liver disease) as well as barriers to accessing healthcare and, at the same time, the book highlights the complexity and diversity among this population. Most medical Spanish textbooks on the market only offer lists of words and common phrases to provide basic tools of communication to healthcare workers. <i>Intermediate Medical Spanish: A Healthcare Workers' Guide for Communicating With the Latino Patient</i>, by contrast, is directed to learners with intermediate and advanced levels of Spanish who wish to broaden their use of the target language in medical contexts.
Some of the topics covered in the textbook are: children’s health, maternal and reproductive health, diet and nutrition, mental health, and physical therapy. The book includes hundreds of vocabulary exercises and critical thinking activities pertaining to cultural awareness. The book also includes a key for some of the vocabulary exercises, a Spanish-English glossary, and a list of common medical procedures
About the author
Diana Galarreta-Aima is an Assistant Professor of Spanish, and the coordinator of the minor in Medical Spanish at James Madison University. Her current research focuses on language policies affecting the health of the Spanish-speaking community in the US, and on community service-learning for Spanish Heritage learners. Her most recent line of research is on development and evaluation of Medical Spanish education at the undergraduate level. Dr. Galarreta-Aima's research has appeared in the Bulletin for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies, the Bulletin of Spanish Studies, the Bulletin of Hispanic Studies, and other peer-reviewed journals and non-academic journals.
Gabriela Segal has been teaching Spanish for 24 years at Arcadia University. She has taught Intermediate Medical Spanish classes. She has taught Medical Spanish at Arcadia University Assistant Physician and Physical Therapy Programs. She has been teaching Human Rights in Latin America, Afro-Latinos Rights, Indigenous Rights and Social Justice classes for more than 10 years.
Diana Ruggiero is Associate Professor of Spanish at the University of Memphis where she currently specializes in Spanish for specific purposes and community service learning. Her research interests to date include heritage language learners, cultural competence and intercultural sensitivity development, service-learning project design and assessment, language interpreting and body language, graduate curriculum development, and issues and methods in L2 and heritage language learner pedagogy. Other research interests include Afro-Hispanic literature and culture. Dr. Ruggiero’s research appears in the Revista de lenguas para fines específicos (RLFE), Journal of Languages for Specific Purposes (JLSP), Global Business Languages, ADFL Bulletin, Hispania, and Latin American Music Review (LAMR) among other peer-reviewed journals and edited volumes.
