Medical London
Subtitle: city of diseases, city of cures
By: edited by Mike Jay.
Contributors: Jay, Mike, 1959 Dec. 14-
Publisher: Strange Attractor Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: [London, UK
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780955876103
Subjects: Public health -- England -- London -- History; Diseases -- England -- London -- History; Medicine -- England -- London -- History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: [1] Sick city : two thousand years of life and death in London / Richard Barnett ; edited by Mike Jay; title: [2] Walk one; title: life and death by water : a walk along the medieval Thames / Richard Barnett; title: [3] Walk two; title: in the footsteps of Daniel Defoe : a journey through the "Plague Year" / Richard Barnett; title: [4] Walk three; title: gallow, ghosts, and golden boys : a day in the life of an eighteenth-century medical student / Richard Barnett; title: [5] Walk four; title: tall ships and tropical diseases : medicine and the British Empire in Greenwich / Richard Barnett; title: [6] Walk five; title: pox and pleasure : Soho by night / Richard Barnett; title: [7] Walk six; title: from homeopaths to psychopaths : Bohemian medicine in Chelsea / Richard Barnett; title: [8]  Anatomy of the city : a guide to medical London / Richard Barnett.