1 Introduction一English in Medical Education 1 2 Intercultural Communicative Competence in Medical Settings 15 Defining Intercultural Communicative Competence 17 Components of Intercultural Communicative Competence: Savoirs and Resources 19 Intercultural Communicative Competence: National and International Standards 22 Models of Cross-Cultural Competence in Medical Education 26 TACCT and the Savoirs 29 3 Task Design in Language and Medical Education 33 Task-based Learning in Intercultural Language Education 33 TBL and PBL 37 Intercultural Problem-based Learning 40 Intercultural Language Tasks for Medical Students: Working with Children 46 Integrating Intercultural learning with PBL Scenarios 50 4 Exploring Medical Language 54 Healthcare Portals as a Source of Medical Language and Content 56 Exploring Medical Language with Online Resources 58 Medical Terms in General Corpora: Frequency and Collocation 59 Insights from a Medical Corpus: Teenage Health Freak 66 Data Collection: Everyday Perspectives on Mental Health Care 68 Analysing Key Words to Show Salience 72 Language, Medicine and the Web 79 5 Medical Talk 81 Professional-Patient Interaction as Conversation 83 Presenting the Self 91 Mediation in Healthcare Consultations 95 Doctor-Doctor Talk 98 Patient Talk: Everyday Beliefs 101 Intercultural Framing 105 Intercultural Interactions in Medical Settings 115 6 Critical Cultural Awareness in Medical Education 117 Savoir s'Esgager: Critical Cultural Awareness 117 Different Perspectives on Illness and Disease 119 Power and Authority in Medical Encounters 121 Curing and Healing, Disease and Illness 123 Medical Pluralism in Japan 125 The Healthcare Professional as Ethnographer 129 Illness and Metaphor 131 Birth in Different Cultures 131 7 Literature and Language in Medical Education 139 W妙the Medical Humanities? 140 Resources for Teaching the Medical Humanities 143 Selecting Appropriate Texts 145 Task Design: Medicine, Literature and Intercultural Language Education 148 Monitoring Student Responses and Developing Literary Skills 153 8 The Visual Arts in Medical Education 157 Images in Language and Medical Education 158 Developing Visual Literacy 160 A Case Study: From Visual Analysis to Cultural Research 168 From Art as Image to Art as Concept and Practice 172 Moving Images: Film and Television 173 9 Course Design for Intercultural Language Education in Medical Settings 178 Principles of English for Specific Purposes 179 Environment Analysis 182 Needs Analysis 183 Curricular Goals 186 Content and Sequencing 188 Format and Presentation of Learning Materials 190 Monitoring and Assessment 193 Evaluation 195 Conclusion 196 References 197 Index 212