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This state-of-the-art monograph offers a comprehensive model of medicine based on language in which health and illness are presented as a matter of self-description or autobiography, and contains a philosophy of medicine based on the general theory of signs. Includes a sketch of the history of medicine in terms of how medicine has conceptualized signs and symptoms over the centuries; formulates a semiotic view of the symptom, drawing on theories of Peirce, Buhler, Freud, and Greimas; introduces a semiotic medical model; and develops a logic of life based on modern views of cosmology and evolution. Volume VII in the Sources in Semiotics series.
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Sources in Semiotics - 7: Medical Semiotics, Eugen Baer
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- 1987
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- Title
- Sources in Semiotics - 7: Medical Semiotics
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Eugen Baer
- Publisher
- University Press of America
- Released
- 1987
- Format
- Paperback
- ISBN10
- 0819167061
- ISBN13
- 9780819167064
- Series
- Tags
- Non-Fiction, Social Sciences, Health & Medicine, Psychological Topics, Philosophical Topics, Philosophy, Psychology, Semiotics
- Description
- This state-of-the-art monograph offers a comprehensive model of medicine based on language in which health and illness are presented as a matter of self-description or autobiography, and contains a philosophy of medicine based on the general theory of signs. Includes a sketch of the history of medicine in terms of how medicine has conceptualized signs and symptoms over the centuries; formulates a semiotic view of the symptom, drawing on theories of Peirce, Buhler, Freud, and Greimas; introduces a semiotic medical model; and develops a logic of life based on modern views of cosmology and evolution. Volume VII in the Sources in Semiotics series.