Download or read book Cross-cultural Communication in the Health Sciences written by Anne Pauwels and published by Macmillan Education AU. This book was released on 1995 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paperback edition of a guide to the issues and problems faced by health professionals when they communicate with their clients and patients from different linguistic and cultural backgrounds. Offers many practical solutions and strategies for dealing with cultural and linguistic issues and problems in health care settings. Includes a bibliography and index. The author is the former director of the Language and Society Centre of the National Languages and Literacy Institute of Australia. She now holds the foundation chair in Linguistics at the University of New England.