Feature Articles
Translation: A transcultural activity
Authors: Andrea Rossi
Effective communication is the goal of any professional medical and communication writer. Transferring the correct messages from one language to another is a task that is increasingly covered by software, but translation machines cannot confer the feeling of people with a different background. Any medical translation is not just a transformation of the text from the source language to the output one: a translated text must communicate the exact meaning in the source language and, thus, has to fit with the reader’s culture.
Medical Writing. 2020;29(4):40–43

