Medical London : city of diseases, city of cures / Richard Barnett ; edited by Mike Jay
2008, First Edition. London : Strange Attractor Press. Fine cloth and stiff-card wrapper copies in a near-fine, slipcase. Remains well-preserved overall. Item #468536
Physical description; 8 volumes : illustrations (some colour), maps colour ; 22 cm. Notes; In slip case. Contents; [1] Sick city : two thousand years of life and death in London / Richard Barnett ; edited by Mike Jay -- [2] Walk one--life and death by water : a walk along the medieval Thames / Richard Barnett -- [3] Walk two--in the footsteps of Daniel Defoe : a journey through the "Plague Year" / Richard Barnett -- [4] Walk three--gallows, ghosts, and golden boys : a day in the life of an eighteenth-century medical student / Richard Barnett -- [5] Walk four--tall ships and tropical diseases : medicine and the British Empire in Greenwich / Richard Barnett -- [6] Walk five--pox and pleasure : Soho by night / Richard Barnett -- [7] Walk six--from homeopaths to psychopaths : Bohemian medicine in Chelsea / Richard Barnett -- [8] Anatomy of the city : a guide to medical London / Richard Barnett. Subjects; Medicine England London History. Public health England London History. Diseases England London History. Social medicine England London History. London (England) History. London (England) Social conditions. London (England) Description and travel.
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