Medical London

About this book

A stunningly-presented guide to Londons past that charts the many roles that diseases treatments and cures have played in the citys sprawling storyand how London in turn has shaped the professions and practices of modern medicine. A unique stunningly-presented guide to Londons past and a treasure trove of information for historians residents medical professionals and tourists Medical London charts the many roles that diseases treatments and cures have played in the citys sprawling story. It also reveals how London in turn has shaped the professions and practices of modern medicine. 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 Londons 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 Defoes Plague Year wanderings to the druggists of Sohos night haunts the homeopaths of bohemian Chelsea to the naval surgeons of maritime Greenwich. Published in collaboration with Wellcome Collection.