Biocommunicability

A Companion to Medical Anthropology

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 459-476

  Briggs, Charles L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

(bio)medicalization and lingustification scrutinized processes of medicalization; Biocommunicability; Biocommunicable cartographies projecting spaces through which knowledge about health moves; Communicative dimensions projected in news stories alongside biomedical objects; Continual emergence of new digitally based technologies keeping track of forms of spectacularlization; Dimensions of social life converted into "information" or "communication"; From communication to communicability people taking turns, building on each others words; Linguistification in analysis of narratives in medical anthropology; Linking biopolitics to constructions of "information" and "communication"; Processes of biomedicalization new objects working hand in hand with linguistification

Indexed keywords

EID: 84881537746     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444395303.ch23     Document Type: Chapter

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