Medicine: Use of English
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Maria Ángeles Alcaraz Ariza holds a B.A. in English Studies and a Ph.D. in Linguistics (University of Alicante, Spain). She is currently teaching English for Tourism and a graduate program in the Analysis of Written Discourse at the University of Alicante. She has published several articles on the influence of English on medical Spanish and on the discoursal features of medical prose written in English, French, and Spanish. She is a member of the Multidisciplinary and Multilingual Research Group on Scientific Discourse Analysis.
Fernando Navarro has a degree in medicine and a specialization in clinical pharmacology. From 1993 to 2002, he worked as a medical translator for Roche Laboratories in Basel, Switzerland. He is now working as a freelance medical translator for several multinational medicopharmaceutical companies. He is the director of Panace@ – Bulletin of Medicine and Translation. He belongs to the expert board of different Spanish medical journals and he is a founding member of Medtrad, a discussion forum on medicine and translation. He is a member of the following organizations: North American Academy of Spanish Language (New York), Consultant Group of Medical Terminology at the Institute Carlos III (Madrid), Swiss Translator Association, Writer Physician Spanish Association (Madrid), and Fundación Litterae (Buenos Aires). He has published several books, as well as over 300 papers on the theory and practice of medical translation and on the problems of medical language in specialized journals.