Influencing Factors of Cross-cultural Communication between Medical Professionals and Patients and Ways to Improve Competence / 中国医学伦理学

In order to build a global community of health for all, it is necessary to deeply understand the influencing factors of cross-cultural communication between medical professionals and patients. Factors such as different health beliefs, cultural values and communication mediators influence cross-cultural communication between medical professionals and patients, and then affect the medical satisfaction and treatment compliance. Medical education should adopt the learning concept of constructivism, advocate maintaining a humble cultural attitude, incorporate more patient perspectives and adopt cross-cultural teaching mode to improve the cross-cultural communication competence of medical students and medical staff, so as to establish a relationship based on communication and understanding.

Problems and Strategies of Cross-cultural Communication of Traditional Chinese Medicine in the Background of "The Belt and Road Initiative"-Britain As An Example / 世界科学技术-中医药现代化

Based on the empirical study in Britain,this paper revealed several problems in the cross-cultural communication of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM):the obstacles are still immense,the system is not complete,the tools are simple,the communication capacity is limited,and the "de-Sinofication" is obvious.The proposals are made as that,applying the concepts of communication and multi-disciplines,accomplishing the system to run as a huge systematic project,creating more means and increasing the capability of communication,conducting the cross-cultural communication training,cultivating talented people,developing domestic TCM to support the abroad TCM,operating as government-leaded projects to enhance national cultural soft power,contesting for supremacy and intellectual property rights in the worldwide TCM areas.

Discussion on English translation of traditional Chinese medicine with the intercultural communication perspective / 国际中医中药杂志

Analysis of differences between traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) philosophy with malnstream western medicine was done with reference to intercultural communication theory. It was found that the differences are malnly manifested through holism philosophy of TCM and dualism of Western medicine, intuition thinking mode of TCM and mechanical thinking mode of western medicine, and ideographic Chinese language and objective description of the Western medicine. The translation principle was also discussed with the perspective of intercultural communication. It is of great significance to respect the recipient’s privilege, to create intimate text, and to understand the bilingual differences if TCM translation is to be promoted.