Food and Medicine A Biosemiotic Perspective /
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...
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| Language: | English |
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Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer,
2021.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2021. |
| Series: | Biosemiotics,
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-67115-0 |
Table of Contents:
- Chapter1 Introduction
- Chapter 2. From ‘gastro-anomy’ to ‘food medicine’: a biosemiotic approach to contemporary eating habits
- Chapter3. A biosemiotic perspective on the symbolic meanings of food and the nature/culture divide
- Chapter4. Free range humans: permaculture farming as a biosemiotic model for social organization
- Chapter5.Emerging omics data and food's interaction with the gut microbiome mediators
- Chapter6. Phytomedial intervention as a double biosemiotic road to health: towards a ‘new paradigmatic’ understanding of herbs in the healing process
- Chapter7. biosemiotic approach to medicine: the role of biological cognition and semiosis in the development of pathology
- chapter8. Biochemistry of desire: advertising to bacteria
- Chapter9. Biosemiosic caring in, from, with the sugar maple grove
- Chapter10. Biosemiosis and the sugar civilization
- Chapter 11. Phytosemiotics of medical marijuana.