Food and Medicine: A Biosemiotic Perspective
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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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Yogi Hendlin is assistant professor in the Erasmus School of Philosophy and Dynamics of Inclusive Prosperity Initiative at Erasmus University Rotterdam, research associate in the Environmental Health Initiative at the University of California, San Francisco, and Editor-in-Chief of the journal Biosemiotics.”
