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Food and Medicine: A Biosemiotic Perspective

Food and Medicine: A Biosemiotic Perspective

Hendlin, Yogi Hale
Hope, Jonathan

Hardcover

Series: Biosemiotics, Book 22

Medical ReferenceLiterary CriticismTechnology & Engineering

ISBN10: 3030671143
ISBN13: 9783030671143
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: May 20 2021
Pages: 196
Weight: 1.03
Height: 0.50 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

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.

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