Download or read book Poison Eaters written by Richard Swiderski and published by Universal-Publishers. This book was released on 2010-07 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.