Biosemiotic Medicine Healing in the World of Meaning /

This book presents an interpretation of pharmaceutical, surgical and psychotherapeutic interventions based on a univalent metalanguage: biosemiotics. It proposes that a metalanguage for the physical, mental, social, and cultural aspects of health and medicine could bring all parts and aspects of hum...

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Other Authors: Goli, Farzad. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2016.
Edition:1st ed. 2016.
Series:Studies in Neuroscience, Consciousness and Spirituality, 5
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-35092-9
Table of Contents:
  • Chapter 1. An Introduction to the Semiotic Approach to the Placebo Responses (Farzad Goli, Shahram Rafieian, Sima Atarodi)
  • Chapter 2. Cybersemiotics as a Transdisciplinary Model for Interdisciplinary Biosemiotic Pharmacology and Medicine (Søren Brier)
  • Chapter 3. Some Reflections on Non-Substance Bound Healing Effects and the Concept of Narrative Medicine (Carl Eduard Scheidt)
  • Chapter 4. How Can We Reconstruct the Health Anticipation? (Farzad Goli, Reza Johari Fard)
  • Chapter 5. The Ritual Effect: The Healing Response to Forms and Performs (Farzad Goli, Mahboubeh Farzanegan)
  • Chapter 6. Hypnosis, Placebo and Performance: Recovering the Relational Aspects of Medicine (Shahram Rafieian, Howard Davis)
  • Chapter 7. How to Prescribe Information: Health Education without Health Anxiety and Nocebo Effects (Farzad Goli, Azadeh Malekian, Alireza Monajemi, Gholam Hossein Ahmadzade)
  • Chapter 8. Making sense in the Medical System: Placebo, Biosemiotics and the Pseudomachine (Stefan Schmidt, Harald Walach)
  • Chapter 9. Medical Practice in/with the Semiosphere (Farzad Goli).