About signs and symptoms: Can semiotics expand the view of clinical medicine?

Theoretical Medicine

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 363-377

  Nessa, John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

Charles Sanders Peirce; diagnostic interpretation; Ferdinand de Saussure; hermeneutic mode of understanding; medical semiotics; scientific mode of understanding; structural linguistics; symptoms and signs; the theory of signs

Indexed keywords

DATA ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; GENERAL ASPECTS OF DISEASE; HUMAN; REVIEW;

DIAGNOSIS; HUMANS; LINGUISTICS; LOGIC; MEDICAL HISTORY TAKING; NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION; PHILOSOPHY, MEDICAL; SYMBOLISM;

EID: 0030473216     PISSN: 01679902     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00489681     Document Type: Review

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