From self-diagnosis to self-medication: Constructing and identifying symptoms

• Autores: Sylvie Fainzang
• Localización: Of Bodies and Symptoms: Anthropological Perspectives on their Social and Medical Treatment / coord. por Sylvie Fainzang, Claudie Haxaire, 2011, ISBN 978-84-694-4991-2, págs. 40-58
• Idioma: inglés
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  • On what basis does a bodily sign become a symptom for the subject and in which conditions does he/she decide to self- medicate when confronted with it? We will see that, in self- medication (which concerns more than just benign symptoms), whereas the distinction in medical semiology between subjective and objective signs is inappropriate here, a relevant distinction is to be made between symptoms with an absolute or those with a relative value, as this entails different practices.