Brenda Nicodemus and Melanie Metzger (Eds.), Investigations in healthcare interpreting. Reviewed by Raffaela Merlini.

An X-ray of a raised hand forming a sign, with thumb and index finger pinched together: while the cover of Nicodemus and Metzger’s volume provides a visual counterpart to the intriguing title of Favaron’s (2004) monograph on healthcare interpreting, L’interprete ai raggi X (‘X-ray view of the interpreter’), it also affords an effective pictorial metaphor for this new book’s most obvious strength, i.e. as a source of evidence-based “insight” into some less evident aspects of healthcare interpreting, and for its main area of concern, i.e. signed-language interpreting (SLI).