The productive force of incommunicabilities in health.

AbstractThe essay reviews Charles L. Briggs’s book “Incommunicable: Towards Communicative justice in health and medicine”. Through critical reading and drawing on psychoanalysis and anthropological phenomenology, the essay review examines the different and distinct ways incommunicabilities develop and take form in the text, along with their productive effects. For this, the articulation between affections, body and words is traced. Special importance is given to the scholar’s proposal of incommunicability-free zones and their relationship with justice in Health. Finally, it draws on decolonial feminist theory, specifically that of María Lugones, to articulate coloniality and gender as indissociable processes to stress a comment/question on the book what effects will have in Charles L. Briggs’s argument to include race-gender as a foundational ground of coloniality? And how will it reframe health/communicative equity and justice? [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]