Incommunicable : toward communicative justice in health and medicine / Charles L. Briggs.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Briggs, Charles L., 1953- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Communication in medicine.

Communication in public health.

Physician and patient.

Medical anthropology.

Language and medicine.

Physician-Patient Relations.

Medical Subjects:

Physician-Patient Relations.

Physical Description:

xii, 323 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Other Title:

Communicative justice in health and medicine

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2024.

Summary:

"Incommunicable builds on philosophical dialogues of language and medicine to analyze incommunicability in the context of medical practice and public health discourse. A contrast to the concepts of communicability and biocommunicability that Charles L. Brigg's has developed throughout his career to study circulatory and biomedical power, incommunicability instead highlights the moments in which forms of communication face failure. Incommunicable questions dominant notions of communicability, which construct discourse and pathogens as inherently mobile, by rethinking the works and lives of philosopher-physicians John Locke, Frantz Fanon, and George Canguilhem, as well as W. E. B. Du Bois. Drawing on examples such as doctor-patient interaction within racialized communities and an extensive study of the COVID-19 pandemic, Briggs addresses the erosion of trust and rejection of expertise that has become prominent in science and medicine. As a study rooted in anthropological and linguistic analysis, Incommunicable intends to decolonize understandings of language and communication within medicine and health"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Philosophical Dialogues in Search of Incommunicability

The Incommunicable Menace Lurking within Locke's Charter for Communicability

W.E.B. Du Bois: Incommunicability and/as The Veil

Frantz Fanon: Doctors, Tarzan, and the Colonial Inscription of Incommunicability

Georges Canguilhem and the Clinical Production of Incommunicability

How Incommunicability Shapes Entanglements of Language and Medicine

Biocommunicable Labor and the Production of Incommunicability in "Doctor-Patient Interaction"

Health Communication: How In/communicabilities Jump Scale

Interlude: Social Movements and Incommunicability-Free Zones

Explorations in the Time of COVID-

Pandemic Ecologies of Knowledge: In Defense of COVID-19 Conspiracy Theories, Sort of

Pandemic Ecologies of Care.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Briggs, Charles L., 1953- Incommunicable

ISBN:

9781478026006

1478026006

9781478025788

1478025786

OCLC:

1390726355

Publisher Number:

90100581563