Kathy’s Reviews > The First Cell: And the Human Costs of Pursuing Cancer to the Last > Status Update

Chapter 1: Instead of reaching into the medicine shelves, doctors need to start reaching into shelves with books holding (this) corporeal language--consult their own libraries where the great works of fiction will teach them to link the semiotics with the scientific to interpret the human experience of disease--the patient's system of nonverbal communication complete with its own syntax, semantics, and pragmatics.