Food and Medicine

Jonathan Hope (Ph.D.) is a professor in the literary studies department at the Université du Québec à Montréal (Canada). His teaching and research focus on semiotics, ecocriticism and the environmental humanities. 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.”

• 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.