Briggs Charles L. Briggs

Incommunicable (eBook, PDF)

Toward Communicative Justice in Health and Medicine

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Produktbeschreibung

In Incommunicable, Charles L. Briggs examines the long-standing presumptions that medical discourse translates easily across geographic, racial, and class boundaries. Bringing linguistic and medical anthropology into conversation with Black and decolonial theory, he theorizes the failure in health communication as incommunicability, which negatively affects all patients, doctors, and healthcare providers. Briggs draws on W. E. B. Du Bois and the work of three philosopher-physicians-John Locke, Frantz Fanon, and Georges Canguilhem-to show how cultural models of communication and health have historically racialized people of color as being incapable of communicating rationally and understanding biomedical concepts. He outlines incommunicability through a study of COVID-19 discourse, in which health professionals defined the disease based on scientific medical knowledge in ways that reduced varieties of nonprofessional knowledge about COVID-19 to "e;misinformation"e; and "e;conspiracy theories."e; This dismissal of nonprofessional knowledge led to a failure of communication that eroded trust in medical expertise. Building on efforts by social movements and coalitions of health professionals and patients to craft more just and equitable futures, Briggs helps imagine health systems and healthcare discourses beyond the oppressive weight of communicability and the stigma of incommunicability.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Februar 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781478059240
• Artikelnr.: 72413499

Autorenporträt

Charles L. Briggs is Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley. He is coauthor of Tell Me Why My Children Died: Rabies, Indigenous Knowledge, and Communicative Justice, also published by Duke University Press.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments  ix
Introduction  1
Part I: Philosophical Dialogues in Search of Incommunicability
1. The Incommunicable Menance Lurking within Locke’s Charter for
Communicability  29
2. W. E. B. Du Bois: Incommunicability and/as the Veil  41
3. Frantz Fanon: Doctors, Tarzan, and the Colonial Inscription of
Incommunicability  53
4. Georges Canguilhem and the Clinical Production of Incommunicability  71
Part II: How Incommunicability Shapes Entanglements of Language and
Medicine
5. Biocommunicable Labor and the Production of Incommunicability in
“Doctor-Patient Interaction”  81
6. Health Communication: How In/communicabilities Jump Scale  109
Interlude: Social Movements and Incommunicability-Free Zones  149
Part III: Communicable Contours of the COVID-19 Pandemic
7. Pandemic Ecologies of Knowledge: In Defense of COVID-19 Conspiracy
Theories, Sort of  161
8. Pandemic Ecologies of Care  197
Conclusion  265
Notes  275
References  283
Index  307