Humanizar la comunicación en salud: humanidades médicas y traducción

Isabel García-Izquierdo

doi:10.17533/udea.mut.v18n1a03

Authors

Isabel García-Izquierdo Universitat Jaume I https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8208-4479

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.17533/udea.mut.v18n1a03

Keywords:

communication in healthcare services, medical humanities, patient-centered care, humanization, asymmetric communication, translation research

Abstract

Health communication has become a central issue in recent decades, especially since the emergence of the patient-centered care paradigm (Epstein et al., 2005; Montalt-Resurrecció and García-Izquierdo, 2016; Muñoz-Miquel and García-Izquierdo, 2020). In the context of the medical humanities paradigm, there is a growing interest in ethical issues and values (Montalt, 2021). Recent research advocates an interdisciplinary approach to communication which takes into account the patients’ needs and expectations, in order to humanize communication (Borja and García-Izquierdo, forthcoming). In this paper we reflect on the concepts of communication and humanization in the area of health, laying special emphasis on the patients' perspective, and refer to some contributions from research in the field of translation studies that can help humanize such communication. More specifically, we present proposals stemming from recent research projects of the Gentt (Textual Genres for Translation) Group.

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Author Biography

Isabel García-Izquierdo, Universitat Jaume I

University Professor in the Department of Translation and Communication at the Universitat Jaume I. A Specialist in Linguistics applied to translation and Spanish for translators at the Universitat Jaume I, she has taught since 1995 doctoral seminars and postgraduate courses at the universities of Valencia, Granada, Salamanca, Vigo, Autónoma de Barcelona, Pablo Olavide de Sevilla, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México and Imperial College (London). She has been a keynote speaker at events at the universities of Granada, Salamanca, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Valencia, Vigo, Alicante, Cantabria, Universidad de Castilla la Mancha, UPO of Seville, Lisbon, Forlì (Bologna), Milan, Imperial College (London) or at the Colegio de México. She has also carried out research stays in Spanish and foreign universities: Germany (Germesheim and Heidelberg), Italy (Trieste and Bologna) and the United Kingdom (Norwich, London, Edinburgh). Since 2000 he has been leading the GENTT research team (Textual Genres for Translation, www.gentt.uji.es), which works on the analysis of specialized multilingual communication in the medical and legal fields. She has published books and articles in national and international media related to the functioning of genres in specialized fields. Throughout her career she has held various university management positions; and, since 2014, she occupies the position of Vice-Chair at Universitat Jaume I.

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