Biosemiotic Medicine

1. An Introduction to the Semiotic Approach to the Placebo Responses
Farzad Goli, Shahram Rafieian, Sima Atarodi

2. Cybersemiotics as a Transdisciplinary Model for Interdisciplinary Biosemiotic Pharmacology and Medicine
Søren Brier

3. Some Reflections on Non-substance Bound Healing Effects and the Concept of Narrative Medicine
Carl Eduard Scheidt

4. How Can We Reconstruct the Health Anticipation?
Farzad Goli, Reza Johari Fard

5. The Ritual Effect: The Healing Response to Forms and Performs
Farzad Goli, Mahboubeh Farzanegan

6. Hypnosis, Placebo, and Performance: Recovering the Relational Aspects of Medicine
Shahram Rafieian, Howard Davis

7. How to Prescribe Information: Health Education Without Health Anxiety and Nocebo Effects
Farzad Goli, Alireza Monajemi, Gholam Hossein Ahmadzadeh, Azadeh Malekian

8. Making Sense in the Medical System: Placebo, Biosemiotics, and the Pseudomachine
Stefan Schmidt, Harald Walach

9. Medical Practice in/with the Semiosphere
Farzad Goli

Keywords: Psychology, Health Psychology, Phenomenology, Theory of Medicine/Bioethics