On some issues of medical semiotics

Abstract

Very few works are devoted to the problem of medical semiotics, meanwhile, modern medical science, having received new research methods, expanding knowledge about diseases and the human body, continuously introduces new concepts, terms, indicators. Their integration into the general context of medical semiotics is an important problem. A significant difficulty is the large volume of symptoms, syndromes currently accumulated in medicine. This article is devoted to the transformation of empirical medical semiotics into analytical one. The authors, relying on the apparatus of theoretical semiotics, proposed a new classification of symptoms and the concept of the meaning of symptoms. These approaches make it possible to make all the array of medical symptoms available for use by a doctor and to diagnose diseases based on a logically consistent and modeling human thinking algorithm. The article outlines a further program for the improvement and development of medical semiotics.

Keywords

• medical semiotics
• symptom
• symptomology