Food and medicine: a biosemiotic perspective
Éditeur :
Springer Nature Switzerland AG
ISBN :
9783030671174
Date de publication :
21 mai 2022
Dimensions :
23,5 x 15,5 cm
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
Suisse
This edited volume provides a biosemiotic analysis of the ecological relationship between food and medicine. 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.