The lecturer at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Karbala, Dr. Ali Tariq, specializing in dermatology, participated in the international conference held in Prague for 3 days, which was conducted electronically due to the Corona pandemic, after it was scheduled to be held in attendance.
The title of the conference is ((It is the annual gathering of biosemiotics) gatherings in boosemiotics, where its participation was through the presentation of his lectures on the science of dermatosemiotics, which received interest “from the participants and as a result it was invited to publish it in the Journal of the Society for Biosemiotics.
He dealt with in the topic of his lecture that the skin is not just an external organ that protects and preserves the organs, but rather acts as a communicative medium through which a person embodies his psychological and mental state, and this communicative function we called the semiotic function that modern science overlooked when the skin was reduced to its biological functions only.
Biological skin is an extension of the brain and the nervous system, and therefore we find that most psychological and neurological problems are embodied through it, as it works here as a semiotic intermediary / that is, it works as a semiotic interface, and this matter has clinical and technological applications.
Adding that the other semiotic function of the skin is to use it metaphorically as a boundary separating the inside and outside, between the self and the other, but at the same time linking them together as a complex adaptive system. So life can exist without a brain, but it is impossible to exist without a skin / boundary.
He also explained in the subject of his research that the skin is the origin and from it all other organs are formed, which makes it capable of transmitting what is happening inside the body indicating its health condition, and Dr. Ali Tariq mentioned that the most important application of the research clinically is to show how touch affects the development of the brain and thus the importance of breastfeeding as a mediator for touch tactile medium and not only to give milk in the development of the brain and the formation of the motherhood identity of the woman and the emotional and social intelligence of the child in the future, and that the knowledge recently showed that autism can be interpreted as touch deprivation at an early level, which affected the development of the brain and activate the places concerned with semiotic / symbolic communication.
