Overview: Examines poisons and related substances in a transdisciplinary context, comprising the history of science, literature and film studies.Conceptualizes poison as “precarious”. This innovative perspectiv.This book is about poison and poisonings; it explores the facts, fears and fictions that surround this fascinating topic. Poisons attract attention because they are both dangerous and hard to discover. Secretive and invisible, they are a challenging object of representation. How do science studies, literature, and especially film—the medium of the visible—explain and show what is hidde
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