Incommunicable: Toward Communicative Justice in Health and Medicine

by Charles L. Briggs

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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:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:1478026006

ISBN13:9781478026006

Release Date:April 2024

Publisher:Duke University Press

Length:336 Pages

Weight:0.99 lbs.

Dimensions:0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"

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Medical Medical Books Social Science Social Sciences

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