Claire Debenham

Claire Debenham is a medical translator currently based in Cambridge, UK.  With a degree in Human Science from University College London and stints as a scientific copy editor at the Royal Society and Random House UK under her belt, she first came to Japan in 1991 as an Anglican missionary.  After working for ecumenical Christian organizations in Tokyo and Kyoto and earning a master's degree in theology from the Church Divinity School of the Pacific, she made a second career swerve into marriage, parenthood, and freelance translation. She puts her early training in journal copy editing to good use in the translation of academic papers while also handling clinical trial documentation, medical device publicity materials, and the very occasional religious article.

Sessions

J-E Medical Translation Workshop: The View from Both Sides

Some translators working in J-E translation are translating into their native tongue, whereas others are translating into English as a foreign language. They may therefore have difficulty with different passages, although they may also struggle with the same phrases. The...

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