Incommunicable: Toward Communicative Justice in Health and Medicine

by Charles L. Briggs

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1478025786
• ISBN13: 9781478025788
• Release Date: April 2024
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.36 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"