Biosemiotic Medicine: Healing in the World of Meaning

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).