Prescriptions: The Semiotics of Medicine and Literature

Both medicine and literature are signifying systems that include fundamental ambiguity, a semiotic strategy of interpreting symptoms, a narrative and mythologizing urge, and the creation of categories through performative speech acts. When literature portrays medicine, it therefore has the opportuni...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Mosaic (Winnipeg) 2000-12, Vol.33 (4), p.179-191
1. Verfasser:	TOBIN, ROBERT D.
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Ambivalence Classical literature Colonial literature Diseases Folk medicine Grimm, Wilhelm Karl (1786-1859) History History & criticism Latin literature Literary criticism Literature Literature and medicine Medicine Phaedrus Physicians Poetry Prescription drugs Semiotic signs Semiotics Signification Speech acts Symptoms
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Zusammenfassung:	Both medicine and literature are signifying systems that include fundamental ambiguity, a semiotic strategy of interpreting symptoms, a narrative and mythologizing urge, and the creation of categories through performative speech acts. When literature portrays medicine, it therefore has the opportunity to comment upon signification itself.
ISSN:	0027-1276 1925-5683