Biosemiotic medicine : healing in the world of meaning /: healing in the world of meaning. ([2016])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Farzad Goli, editor.
• Other Names: Goli, Farzad
• Contents: Chapter 1. An Introduction to the Semiotic Approach to the Placebo Responses / Farzad Goli, Shahram Rafieian, and 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 and Reza Johari Fard -- Chapter 5. The Ritual Effect: The Healing Response to Forms and Performs / Farzad Goli and Mahboubeh Farzanegan -- Chapter 6. Hypnosis, Placebo and Performance: Recovering the Relational Aspects of Medicine / Shahram Rafieian and Howard Davis -- Chapter 7. How to Prescribe Information: Health Education without Health Anxiety and Nocebo Effects / Farzad Goli, Alireza Monajemi, Gholam Hossein Ahmadzade, and Azadeh Malekian -- Chapter 8. Making sense in the Medical System: Placebo, Biosemiotics and the Pseudomachine / Stefan Schmidt and Harald Walach -- Chapter 9. Medical Practice in/with the Semiosphere / Farzad Goli. Preface; Acknowledgments; Contents; Chapter 1: An Introduction to the Semiotic Approach to the Placebo Responses; 1.1 The Pragmatic Dilemma: Non-specific or Meaning Response; 1.2 The Methodological Dilemma: Placebo, Noise, or Signal; 1.3 The Ethical Dilemma: Beneficence vs. Autonomy; 1.4 The Way Out of the Dilemma; 1.5 Biopsychosocial (BPS) Model; 1.6 Biosemiotics and the Biopsychosocial Model; 1.7 Cybersemiotic Medicine; 1.8 Applying the Biosemiotic Perspective: Towards an Integrative Medicine; References. Chapter 2: Cybersemiotics as a Transdisciplinary Model for Interdisciplinary Biosemiotic Pharmacology and Medicine2.1 Introduction to the Biomedical Problem of Theoretically Integrating Awareness and Experience; 2.2 Is Consciousness a Part of Reality?; 2.3 Integrating the Four Views on Consciousness in the Cybersemiotic Star; 2.4 The Idea of Cybersemiotics; 2.5 Phenomenology and the Life World; 2.6 Popper's Three Worlds and Evolutionary Theory of Knowing; 2.7 Evolution and Teleonomy; 2.8 Changing Our Basic Understanding of Physics; 2.9 Why Brain and Experiential Consciousness Data Do Not Fit. 2.10 Biosemiotics: The Connection Between Meaning, Rationality and Nature2.11 Consciousness as Communicated Lifeworlds; 2.12 The Self-Organizing Universe; 2.13 Conclusion; References; Chapter 3: Some Reflections on Non-substance Bound Healing Effects and the Concept of Narrative Medicine; 3.1 The Concept of Narrative Medicine; 3.2 Attachment and Physical Health; 3.3 Attachment and Physiological Homeostasis; 3.4 Attachment and the Doctor-Patient Relationship; 3.5 Meaning Construction and Somatic Symptoms; 3.6 The Psychological Function of Narratives; 3.7 Placebo: Implicit Belief Systems. Chapter 6: Hypnosis, Placebo, and Performance: Recovering the Relational Aspects of Medicine6.1 Hypnosis: Imagination and Role-Taking; 6.2 Placebo, Meaning, and Interpersonality; 6.3 The Nocebo Effect; 6.4 Placebo, Hypnosis and the Relational Context; 6.5 Performance and Medicine; 6.6 Implications for Research; 6.7 Conclusion; References; Chapter 7: How to Prescribe Information: Health Education Without Health Anxiety and Nocebo Effects; 7.1 Risk and Danger; 7.2 The Social Aspects: Medicalization, Healthism, and Life Stylism.
• Publisher Details: Switzerland : Springer
• Publication Date: 2016
• Extent: 1 online resource (256 pages)
• Subjects: 153.01; Psychology; Consciousness; Neurosciences; Medicine, Psychosomatic; Medicine -- Semiotics; PSYCHOLOGY -- Reference; PSYCHOLOGY -- Cognitive Psychology; SCIENCE -- Cognitive Science; Consciousness; Medicine, Psychosomatic; Neurosciences; Philosophy -- Movements -- Phenomenology; Medical -- Ethics; Phenomenology & Existentialism; Bio-ethics; Psychology, clinical; Phenomenology ; Medical ethics; Psychology -- Applied Psychology; Health psychology; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783319350929; 3319350927
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: ReferencesChapter 4: How Can We Reconstruct the Health Anticipation?; 4.1 Belief System and Expectation; 4.2 Personal Belief System; 4.3 Healing Belief System; 4.4 Sociocultural Context; 4.5 Changing Expectation and Placebo Effect; 4.6 Behavioral-PNI Modulation; References; Chapter 5: The Ritual Effect: The Healing Response to Forms and Performs; 5.1 The Function of Rituals; 5.2 Rites of Healing; 5.3 Medical Systems as Embedded Therapeutic Metaphors; 5.4 Cultural Contexts and Healing Metaphors; 5.5 Conclusion; References.; Note: Print version record.
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