Resumen de From self-diagnosis to self-medication: Constructing and identifying symptoms
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.
