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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...represents a daring effort to furnish a theoretical groudwork for a philosophy of medicine bases in a general theory of signs. Baer's is a highly suggestive and creative effort. * International Studies in Philosophy * The book brings the most profound interpretation of the subject matter.... -- Dr. Thure von Uexk?ll, University of Ulm West-Germany * International Studies in Philosophy * Baer's book is, first, a wonderful read and, second, the best evidence for the justification of semiotics to its critics. * Semiotica: Journal of the International Association for Semiotic Studies * Baer's book is, first, a wonderful read and, second, the best evidence for the justification of semiotics to its critics. * Semiotica: Journal of the International Association for Semiotic Studies * ...represents a daring effort to furnish a theoretical groudwork for a philosophy of medicine bases in a general theory of signs. Baer's is a highly suggestive and creative effort. * International Studies in Philosophy * The book brings the most profound interpretation of the subject matter.... -- Dr. Thure von Uexk?ll, University of Ulm West-Germany * International Studies in Philosophy *
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Höhe: 239 mm
Breite: 152 mm
Dicke: 30 mm
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978-0-8191-6705-7 (9780819167057)
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Eugen S. Baer is Professor of Philosophy at Hobart & Williams Colleges in Geneva, New York. He is the author of Semiotic Approaches to Psychotherapy (Bloomington, Indiana University Press, 1975).
