February 26, 2024
A new book by Charles Briggs, Berkeley Center for Social Medicine Co-Chair, will be published by Duke University Press in April. The introduction is available to read online (for free) now. Incommunicable: Toward Communicative Justice in Health and Medicine examines the failures in health communication across geographic, racial, and class boundaries and analyzes their negative effects on patients, doctors, and healthcare providers. Briggs analyzes linguistic and medical anthropology in conjunction with Black and decolonial theory to theorize this incommunicability.