Drogas, fármacos y venenos

Drugs with which to treat diseases, poisons to hunt and kill, legal and illegal narcotics, aromas, materials, dyes... nature contains an abundance of all this, as our species has shown, taking advantage of them since time immemorial. Some will be relatively familiar to the reader, such as penicillin, morphine, rubber or cocaine, and others will not; although that does not mean that its importance is less. Perhaps they enjoyed popularity at the time, and their wake was lost along the way, or they are illustrious strangers whose value would deserve greater repercussion. Delve into the fabulous history of drugs, drugs and poisons of one of its greatest connoisseurs, the chemist David Sucunza. This work narrates the enormous impact that some natural products have had on our history. And it does so through twenty-five illustrative chapters, through which a good number of intertwined knowledges parade: chemistry tells us about their structure, biology about their function in the organisms that originate them, medicine deals with the effect that many of they cause in the human being, the anthropology of their use by traditional societies, history recounts their importance in the future of our civilization and the economy the role they have played in international trade, and all these aspects together make up the suggestive melting pot from which the pages of this amazing trip to Drugs, medicines and poisons drink.