Communicating with the African patient

"Communicating with the African Patient is filed with useful and practical language learning strategies designed to help doctors, nurses and other health care workers to learn an African language through their daily contact with patients. More than this, it gives advice on ways to reach some understanding of the culture, health beliefs and world views of the patient in a medical consultation. Although English/Zulu and the Zulu medical culture are used as the examples, the underlying themes are applicable to any language and culture." "This book has been considerably revised and expanded to include more material on the cross-cultural consultation, the Aids pandemic, as well as appendices of vocabulary and 'survival phrases' designed to facilitate communication and understanding in a medical context."--BOOK JACKET.