All posts by Laura C Collada Ali
Software as a Medical Device
Software as a Medical Device Regulatory and Market Access Implications By Koen Cobbaert, Gert Bos, Gloria Hall (editor) Regulatory Affairs Professionals Society (RAPS) Publications 2021 (eBook); 2021 (paperback) ISBN: 978-1-947493-62-9 (eBook)This book review was published in EMWA's Medical Writing Journal in 2022. See the full text here As the authors of this book, Koen Cobbaert...
The concept of ‘Public Health’
Profile: An interview with Dr Gustavo A Silva on the concept of public health in medical writing and translationThis interview was published in EMWA's Medical Writing Journal in 2013 (Vol. 44; No.4). See the full text here We often tend to consider the different branches of medical translation as unique islands of knowledge. We may...
Is that a fish in your ear?
Is That a Fish in Your Ear? Translation and the Meaning of Everything by David BellosPenguin Books, 2011. ASIN: B005GET42K (Kindle Edition). 5.49 GBP. 400 pages.This book review was published in EMWA's Medical Writing Journal in 2013. See the full text here To start with, the title of this book is astonishing and needs to...
What’s a Cabinet of Curiosities?
Cabinets of curiosities were collections of notable objects. The term originated in the sixteenth century and described a room rather than a piece of furniture.Cabinets of curiosities are considered to be the ancestors of modern museum. They played a fundamental role in the development of modern science, even if they were not always that 'scientific'.They...
·Teks·sema· or what’s in a name…
A text is nothing more than the result of the single units of meaning woven together.