Thomas A. Sebeok & Jean Umiker-Sebeok 
The Semiotic Web 1991: Biosemiotics [PDF ebook] 

Frontmatter – Contents – Preface – Concerning Gaia—Semiosic Production of/in/by/for Our Planet – Editing the Text of a Disease: Semiotic and Ethical Aspects of Therapeutic Genetic Engineering – The Brain’s Models and Communication – Semiotics and Biosemiotics: Are Sign-Science and Life-Science Coextensive? – Modeling Life: A Note on the Semiotics of Emergence and Computation in Artificial and Natural Living Systems – Some Semiotic Aspects of the Psycho-Physical Relation: The Endo-Exosemiotic Boundary – Organization of Biosystems: A Semiotic Approach – Nature Semiotics: The Icons of Nature – Ecogenesis and Echogenesis: Some Problems for Biosemiotics – Phytosemiotics Revisited – Evolution and Semiotics – On the Specificity of Musculoskeletal Symptoms: A Biosemiotic Excursion – As Signs Grow, So Life Goes – The Neglect of Subjective Medical Data and the Cultural Construction of Pain Disease—A Cross-Cultural Study – On Abductions from the X-Ray Screen: The Semiotic Potential of Radiology Illustrated by Two False Suspicions – Species, Signs, and Intentionality – ‘Tell Me, Where is Fancy Bred?’: The Biosemiotic Self – Biosemiotics: A Functional-Evolutionary Approach to the Analysis of the Sense of Information – Half of the Living World Was Unable to Communicate for about One Billion Years – The Social Construction of Alzheimer’s Disease – Biosemiotics, Ethnographically Speaking – Categorical Perception as a General Prerequisite to the Formation of Signs? On the Biological Range of a Deep Semiotic Problem in Hjelmslev’s as Well as Peirce’s Semiotics – Varieties of Semiosis – On the Emergence of Chemical Languages – Index – Backmatter