L1.2.2: Impacts of the English Language to Health Sciences
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- Piligaard, 200795% of medical papers come from English speaking countries
- Baethge, 20089 out of 10 new journals in international medical publishing are in English
- many would contribute to the body of knowledge by doing research
- English: most common, if not the only language utilized for journals used by scientists and experts
- make use of the results
- why is medicine and healthcare using English?
- molecular biology and genome sequency: only came about during 1970s
- while discoveries are done, the language that medicine uses is English
- people needs a word for something and everything
- world improvement —> world development
- there has to be a lingua franca that will be used as a response to current developments
- Sometimes a single word defines an era and it's fitting that in this exceptional and exceptionally difficult year, a single word came immediately to the fore as we examined the data that determines what our word of the year will be
- word of the year (2020): pandemic
- whatever may happen, there must be a language that is used to name, describe, and explain
- pandemic: Germanic origin
- Micic, 2013Modern medicine has transgressed the boundaries of the Greco-Latin terms and must create a new terminology
- while mother tongue is used to define something, it is necessary to arrive to a common term that is understood by everyone