Medical London : city of diseases, city of cures / by Richard Barnett ; edited by Mike Jay.
Published / Created:
Devizes : Strange Attractor, 2008.
Physical Description:
[8] v. : ill. ; 15-21 cm.
Collection:
Reference Library
Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
In slip case.
Contents:
[1] Anatomy of the city.--[2] Sick city.--[3] Life and death by water: a walk along the medieval Thames.--[4] In the footsteps of Daniel Defoe: a journey through the plague year.--[5] Gallows, ghosts and golden boys: a day in the life of an eighteenth-century medical student.--[6] Tall ships and tropical diseases: medicine and the British Empire in Greenwich.--[7] Px and pleasure: Soho by night.--[8] From homeopath to psychopaths: Bohemian medicine in Chelsea.
Subject Terms:
Medicine -- England -- London -- History. | Social medicine -- England -- London -- History. | Public health -- England -- London -- History. | London (England) -- History. | London (England) -- Social conditions. | London (England) -- Buildings, structures, etc.