Poison Eaters - Snakes, Opium, Arsenic, and the Lethal Show (Paperback)

Testing the boundaries between food, poison and medicine is a public show made into a continuing drama of risk and survival. This book is the first to explore the tradition of deliberate poison eating, its practitioners, and the substances that might nourish or kill them. Readers interested in the human history of drugs and medicine, in feats of endurance usually survived and in the play of controlling and regulatory authorities that always accompanies drug and poison use will find Poison Eaters especially appealing.

General

Imprint:	Universal Publishers
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	July 2010
First published:	July 2010
Authors:	Richard M. Swiderski
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 15mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	288
ISBN-13:	978-1-59942-834-5
Categories:	Books > Medicine > General issues > History of medicine
LSN:	1-59942-834-2
Barcode:	9781599428345

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