| Poison Eaters: Snakes, Opium, Arsenic, and the Lethal Show Contributor(s): Swiderski, Richard M. (Author) |
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ISBN: 1599428342 ISBN-13: 9781599428345 Publisher: Universal Publishers OUR PRICE: $24.65 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: July 2010 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Medical | History - Medical | Pharmacy - Law | Medical Law & Legislation |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 6" W x 9" (0.85 lbs) 288 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |