An early semiotic
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Yukun Xia
Yukun Xia (b. 1983) is a physician at Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University 〈58101760@qq.com〉. Her research interests include integrated Chinese and Western medicine and rheumatology. Her publications include “Pulmonary hypertension in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus: A systematic review and analysis of 642 cases in Chinese population” (2013).
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Kathryn Staiano-Ross
Kathryn Staiano-Ross (b. 1940) is an independent scholar 〈kathrynvross@gmail.com〉. Her research interests include semiotics, biocultural semiotics, biosemiotics, and medical anthropology. Her publications include “Interpreting signs of illness: A case study in medical semiotics” (1986); and “The symptom” (2012).Hanten Day (b. 1967) is Director of Medical Informatics and Health Policy at Moda Health 〈Hanten.Day@modahealth.com〉. His research interests include health policy and healthcare systems, public health, applied medical anthropology, and medical informatics.
Abstract
The origin of a system of thought today referred to as Semiotic(s) is typically traced to sixth century BCE Greek philosophy and medicine. It is argued here, however, that semiotics should not be seen as the exclusive product of western thought and that a parallel semiotics – a systematic exploration and organization of signs in a world constructed of signs – developed in early Chinese philosophy and medicine at approximately the same time or earlier. Both ancient traditions were scientific (though not in today's terms), rational, comprehensive, and based on a natural philosophy that saw the body and its functioning in entirely natural terms.
About the authors
Yukun Xia (b. 1983) is a physician at Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University 〈58101760@qq.com〉. Her research interests include integrated Chinese and Western medicine and rheumatology. Her publications include “Pulmonary hypertension in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus: A systematic review and analysis of 642 cases in Chinese population” (2013).
Kathryn Staiano-Ross (b. 1940) is an independent scholar 〈kathrynvross@gmail.com〉. Her research interests include semiotics, biocultural semiotics, biosemiotics, and medical anthropology. Her publications include “Interpreting signs of illness: A case study in medical semiotics” (1986); and “The symptom” (2012).
Hanten Day (b. 1967) is Director of Medical Informatics and Health Policy at Moda Health 〈Hanten.Day@modahealth.com〉. His research interests include health policy and healthcare systems, public health, applied medical anthropology, and medical informatics.
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Articles in the same Issue
- Frontmatter
- A semiotic model of visual perception
- Art, science, and value as found in Peirce's ten trichotomies
- Reforming visual semiotics: The dynamic approach
- An early semiotic
- “Language as calculus” in Beckett's writing: A new perspective on Beckett's conception of language
- Media representations of science, andimplications for neuroscience and semiotics
- Ubiquitous but arbitrary iconicity
- Nation and globalization as social interaction: Interdiscursivity of discourse and semiosis in the 2008 Beijing Olympics' opening ceremony
- Documentary evidence as hegemonic reconstruction
- Semiotic resources of music notation: Towards a multimodal analysis of musical notation in student texts
- The semiotics of undesirable bodies: Transnationalism, race culture, abjection
- A socio-semiotic framework for the analysis of exhibits in a science museum
- Indefinite identity: The masked terrorist as iconic legisign
- The segmentation of phenomenological space in Licheń as an example of double binds
- Wine labels in Austrian food retail stores: A semiotic analysis of multimodal red wine labels
- Exploring the rhetorical semiotic brand image structure of ad films with multivariate mapping techniques
