Communication in Surgical Practice - Sarah J. White
Chapter 13 Toward a Language of Operative Surgery
Communication in Surgical Practice - Sarah J. White
John A. Cartmill [+]
Macquarie University
John A.Cartmill is a colorectal surgeon, Associate Dean, Clinical, and Professor of Surgery at the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences at Macquarie University.
David G. Butt
Macquarie University
Description
This speculative chapter about the physical action of operative surgery is presented as a dialogue between surgeon and linguist. The value of the collaboration lies in the difference between the two perspectives, which the reader will appreciate are not in complete alignment. We hoped that both linguists and surgeons could read this chapter with the back and forth exchange clarifying the points being made from outside their respective fields. This chapter can be read as a monologue by concentrating on the one font.