June 24, 2020
ISSI's Berkeley Center for Social Medicine co-chair Charles L. Briggs has a new article in the journal Medical Anthropology. In his essay, “Beyond the Linguistic/Medical Anthropology Divide: Retooling Anthropology to Face COVID-19,” he argues that "the chasm that generally separates medical and linguistic anthropology ... constitutes one of the most acute infrastructural shortcomings that limits the value of anthropology for responding not just to COVID-19 or health 'crises' in general but investigating and analyzing complex contemporary naturalcultural worlds."