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From the 1880s to the 1920s, hunger artists - professional fasters - lived on the fringes of public spectacle and academic experiment. Agustí Nieto-Galan presents the history of this phenomenon as popular urban spectacle and subject of scientific study, showing how hunger artists acted as mediators between the human and the social body. Doctors, journalists, impresarios , artists, and others used them to reinforce their different philosophical...

From the 1880s to the 1920s, public performances of extreme fasting by caged hunger artists became a very popular source of entertainment. Agusti Nieto-Galan presents the history of this phenomenon as both urban spectacle and subject of scientific study and experiment.

Nieto-Galan explores the links between chemistry and industrial and military projects, national rivalries and international endeavours in twentieth-century Spain. He unveils the chemists' positions of power and their engagement in fierce ideological battles, drawing out elements of co-production between science and politics.

Nieto-Galan explores the links between chemistry and industrial and military projects, national rivalries and international endeavours in twentieth-century Spain. He unveils the chemists' positions of power and their engagement in fierce ideological battles, drawing out elements of co-production between science and politics.

First published in Spanish in 2011 with the title: Los paublicos de la ciencia: expertos y profanos a travaes de la historia (Madrid: Marcial Pons, Ediciones de Historia).

First published in Spanish in 2011 with the title: Los paublicos de la ciencia: expertos y profanos a travaes de la historia (Madrid: Marcial Pons, Ediciones de Historia).