Biosemiotic Medicine

Farzad Goli, MD, Fellowship in Psychosomatic Medicine. He is a founder of Bioenergy economy as an integrative model of care, in Energy Medicine University Sausalito, CA, USA. He leads a post-doctoral program at psychosomatic research center of Isfahan University of Medical Sciences under supervision of psychosomatic department of Freiburg University. At the moment, he is editor-in-chief of International Journal of Body, Mind and Culture.

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 inthe Medical System: Placebo, Biosemiotics and the Pseudomachine (Stefan Schmidt, Harald Walach).- Chapter 9. Medical Practice in/with the Semiosphere (Farzad Goli).