Poison Eaters: Snakes, Opium, Arsenic, and the Lethal Show

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.

Author: Richard M. Swiderski

Publisher: Universal Publishers

Publication Date: Jul 15, 2010

Number of Pages: 288 pages

Binding: Paperback or Softback

ISBN-10: 1599428342

ISBN-13: 9781599428345