TY - JOUR T1 - Books: <em>Biosemiotic Medicine: Healing in the World of Meaning (Studies in Neuroscience, Consciousness and Spirituality)</em> JF - British Journal of General Practice JO - Br J Gen Pract SP - 130 LP - 130 DO - 10.3399/bjgp17X689761 VL - 67 IS - 656 AU - Gerald W Partridge Y1 - 2017/03/01 UR - http://bjgp.org/content/67/656/130.abstract N2 - Farzad Goli (ed.) Springer, 2016, HB, 264pp, £64.99, 978-3319350912Biosemiosis is a new metanarrative that views all of biology in one broad conceptual field of sign (Greek, semion: a sign), relationships extending from animal and human behaviour down to the molecular level. A blood level is information and has meaning when we know the normal range. Context changes information into meaning.According to Amazon, this book is the first with the words ‘biosemiosis’ and ‘medicine’ in the title.At the molecular level we recognise that the molecule is about something apart from itself. The humble calcium ion is chemically, well, a calcium ion, but when it is involved in blood clotting, muscle … ER -