Biosemiotic Medicine - Healing in the World of Meaning (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016)

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 human life together and thus shape a picture of the human being as a whole, made up from the heterogeneous images of the vast variety of sciences and technologies in medicine discourse. The book adopts a biosemiotics clinical model of thinking because, similar to the ancient principle of alchemy, tam ethice quam physice, everything in this model is physical as much as it is mental. Signs in the forms of vibrations, molecules, cells, words, images, reflections and rites conform cultural, mental, physical, and social phenomena. The book decodes healing, dealing with health, illness and therapy by emphasizing the first-person experience as well as objective events. It allows readers to follow the energy-information flows through and between embodied minds and to see how they form physiological functions such as our emotions and narratives.

General

Imprint:	Springer International Publishing AG
Country of origin:	Switzerland
Series:	Studies in Neuroscience, Consciousness and Spirituality, 5
Release date:	August 2016
First published:	2016
Editors:	Farzad Goli
Dimensions:	235 x 155 x 16mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	247
Edition:	1st ed. 2016
ISBN-13:	978-3-319-35091-2
Categories:	Books > Science & Mathematics > Biology, life sciences > Life sciences: general issues > Bio-ethics Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Western philosophy > Modern Western philosophy, c 1600 to the present > Western philosophy, from c 1900 - > Phenomenology & Existentialism Books > Philosophy > Western philosophy > Modern Western philosophy, c 1600 to the present > Western philosophy, from c 1900 - > Phenomenology & Existentialism
LSN:	3-319-35091-9
Barcode:	9783319350912

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