Overview
- Is the first to present biosemiotics as a model to analyze medical knowledge and practice
- Provides a common language for different specialties of the health system
- Offers a systemic framework for an integrated health and medical system
Part of the book series: Studies in Neuroscience, Consciousness and Spirituality (SNCS, volume 5)
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About this book
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.
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Farzad Goli, MD, Fellowship in Psychosomatic Medicine. He is a founder of Bioenergy economy as an integrative model of care, in Energy Medicine University Sausalito, CA, USA. He leads a post-doctoral program at psychosomatic research center of Isfahan University of Medical Sciences under supervision of psychosomatic department of Freiburg University. At the moment, he is editor-in-chief of International Journal of Body, Mind and Culture.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Biosemiotic Medicine
Book Subtitle: Healing in the World of Meaning
Editors: Farzad Goli
Series Title: Studies in Neuroscience, Consciousness and Spirituality
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-35092-9
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Behavioral Science and Psychology, Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-35091-2Published: 11 August 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-81722-4Published: 12 June 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-35092-9Published: 02 August 2016
Series ISSN: 2211-8918
Series E-ISSN: 2211-8926
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 247
Number of Illustrations: 15 b/w illustrations, 3 illustrations in colour
Topics: Health Psychology, Phenomenology, Theory of Medicine/Bioethics