Essays, Maps, Guide to London's Medical Landscape: Medical London

Medical London by Richard Barnett, edited by Mike Jay

Published by Strange Attractor Press in association with Wellcome Collection
ISBN: 978-0-9558761-0-3
Publication: November 2008

"Beautifully packaged...Barnett and Jay have produced a wonderful history both of Londoners' lives and the medical profession"
Observer

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For 2000 years, health and sickness have danced across, above and below the city's streets, defining London life in the process. 'Medical London' charts the many roles that diseases, treatments and cures have played in the city's sprawling story, and reveals how London, in turn, has shaped the professions and practices of modern medicine.

A colour photograph of set of covers for the six walks, arranged in two columns of three. 'Medical London' comprises three parts:

A volume of essays exploring some of the threads that medicine has woven through London life, from its earliest beginnings to the multicultural metropolis of today: its roles in contagion and sanitation, in wealth and its consumption, in empire and immigration, in pleasure and in madness.
A definitive guide to London's medical landscape: its museums and hospitals, its grand monuments and secret corners, and the characters and events that lie behind them.
Six elegantly designed maps for self-guided walks, from Daniel Defoe's Plague Year wanderings to the druggists of Soho's night haunts, the homeopaths of bohemian Chelsea to the naval surgeons of maritime Greenwich.

Photograph of Richard Barnett Richard Barnett studied medicine in London before becoming a historian. He has taught at the Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL, and now teaches in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge. 'Medical London' is his first book.

Photograph of Mike Jay Mike Jay is the acclaimed author of 'The Air Loom Gang', 'The Unfortunate Colonel Despard', and most recently the 'The Atmosphere of Heaven: The Unnatural Experiments of Dr. Beddoes and his Sons of Genius'.