Description: Food and Medicine : A Biosemiotic Perspective, Hardcover by Hendlin, Yogi Hale (EDT); Hope, Jonathan (EDT), ISBN 3030671143, ISBN-13 9783030671143, Brand New, Free shipping in the US This edited volume provides a biosemiotic analysis of the ecological relationship between food and medicine. Drawing on the origins of semiotics in medicine, this collection proposes innovative ways of considering aliments and treatments. Considering the ever-evolving character of our understanding of meaning-making in biology, and considering the keen popular interest in issues relating to food and medicines - fueled by an increasing body of interdisciplinary knowledge - the contributions here provide diverse insights and arguments into the larger ecology of organisms’ engagement with and transformation through taking in matter. Bodies interpret molecules, enzymes, and alkaloids they intentionally and unintentionally come in contact with according to their pre-existing receptors. But their receptors are also changed by the experience. Once the body has identified a particular substance, it responds by initiating semiotic sequences and negotiations that fulfill vital functions for the organism at macro-, meso-, and micro-scales. Human abilities to distill and extract the living world into highly refined foods and medicines, however, have created substances far more potent than their counterparts in our historical evolution. Many of these substances also lack certain accompanying proteins, enzymes, and alkaloids that otherwise aid digestion or protect against side-effects in active extracted chemicals. Human biology has yet to catch up with human inventions such as supernormal foods and medicines that may flood receptors, overwhelming the body’s normal satiation mechanisms. This volume discusses how biosemioticians can come to terms with these networks of meaning, providing a valuable and provocative compendium for semioticians, medical researchers and practitioners, sociologists, cultural theorists, bioethicists and scholars investigating the interdisciplinary questions stemming from food and medicine.
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Book Title: Food and Medicine : a Biosemiotic Perspective
Number of Pages: VII, 196 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Springer International Publishing A&G
Publication Year: 2021
Topic: Public Health, Food Science, Semiotics & Theory
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Literary Criticism, Technology & Engineering, Medical
Item Weight: 16.8 Oz
Author: Jonathan Hope
Item Length: 9.3 in
Item Width: 6.1 in
Book Series: Biosemiotics Ser.
Format: Hardcover
