Semiotic Foundations of Drug Therapy - The Placebo Problem in a New Perspective

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Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- Graphie conventions -- 0. Introduction: Knots in a red thread -- 1. Encyclopedic outline of a cultural unit: «Aspirin» -- 2. The semiotic specificity of the pharmacologically nonspecific: the placebo problem -- 3. De attractionibus electivis: the modelling of /similarity/ in the history of pharmacy and chemistry -- 4. Reflections on pharmaceutical esthetics -- 5. Conclusion: Pharmacomorphism of the doctorpatient relationship and liturgy of the physic -- Notes -- References -- Index

Product details

• Authors: Klaus Schonauer
• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.01.1994
• EAN: 9783110135329
• ISBN: 978-3-11-013532-9
• No. of pages: 258
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 22 mm x 230 mm
• Weight: 528 g
• Illustrations: 21 b/w ill.
• Series: Approaches to Semiotics; Approaches to Semiotics; Approaches to Semiotics [AS]; ISSN
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics