Briggs Incommunicable

Toward Communicative Justice in Health and Medicine
1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-1-4780-5924-0
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 336 Seiten

Charles L. Briggs examines and challenges the long-standing foundational concepts in the communication of health care to work toward more just and equitable medical futures.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Briggs, Charles L.

Fachgebiete

• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Public Health, Gesundheitsmanagement, Gesundheitsökonomie, Gesundheitspolitik
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Gesundheitssoziologie, Medizinsoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Invalidität, Krankheit und Abhängigkeit: Soziale Aspekte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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.