书目名称 | Food and Medicine | 副标题 | A Biosemiotic Perspe | 编辑 | Yogi Hale Hendlin,Jonathan Hope | 视频video | | 概述 | First volume addressing the Biosemiotics of food or medicine, and how the two are related.Combines insights from science, science studies, social science, and the humanities on the relevant topics of | 丛书名称 | Biosemiotics | 图书封面 |  | 描述 | .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 | 出版日期 | Book 2021 | 关键词 | Food Studies; Biosemiotics; Health; Bioethics; Environmental Determinants of Health; Semiotics | 版次 | 1 | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-67115-0 | isbn_softcover | 978-3-030-67117-4 | isbn_ebook | 978-3-030-67115-0Series ISSN 1875-4651 Series E-ISSN 1875-466X | issn_series | 1875-4651 | copyright | The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerl |
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