Incommunicable
Title | Incommunicable PDF eBook |
Author | Charles L. Briggs |
Publisher | Duke University Press |
Pages | 196 |
Release | 2024-02-23 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1478059249 |
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 “misinformation” and “conspiracy theories.” 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.
The International English and French Dictionary
Title | The International English and French Dictionary PDF eBook |
Author | Leon Smith |
Publisher | |
Pages | 820 |
Release | 1871 |
Genre | English language |
ISBN |
An Appeal in Behalf of the Views of the Eternal World and State and the Doctrines of Faith and Life, Held by the Body of Christians who Believe that a New Church is Signified by the New Jerusalem Embracing Answers to All Principal Objections
Title | An Appeal in Behalf of the Views of the Eternal World and State and the Doctrines of Faith and Life, Held by the Body of Christians who Believe that a New Church is Signified by the New Jerusalem Embracing Answers to All Principal Objections PDF eBook |
Author | Samuel Noble |
Publisher | |
Pages | 540 |
Release | 1855 |
Genre | New Jerusalem Church |
ISBN |
Life and the soul. Biology and Transcendentalism. [2 lects.].
Title | Life and the soul. Biology and Transcendentalism. [2 lects.]. PDF eBook |
Author | Joseph Cook |
Publisher | |
Pages | 212 |
Release | 1879 |
Genre | Religion and science |
ISBN |
The Metaphysics of the School: Book 1. The definition; Book 2. Being.; Book 3. Attributes of being
Title | The Metaphysics of the School: Book 1. The definition; Book 2. Being.; Book 3. Attributes of being PDF eBook |
Author | Thomas Harper |
Publisher | |
Pages | 684 |
Release | 1879 |
Genre | Metaphysics |
ISBN |
Criticisms
Title | Criticisms PDF eBook |
Author | John Mackinnon Robertson |
Publisher | |
Pages | 216 |
Release | 1902 |
Genre | English literature |
ISBN |
The Metaphysics of the School: Book 1. The definition; Book 2. Being.; Book 3. Attributes of being
Title | The Metaphysics of the School: Book 1. The definition; Book 2. Being.; Book 3. Attributes of being PDF eBook |
Author | Thomas Norton Harper |
Publisher | |
Pages | 682 |
Release | 1879 |
Genre | Metaphysics |
ISBN |