Medical London : city of diseases, city of cures.
- Type:
- boek
- Titel:
- Medical London : city of diseases, city of cures.
- Jaar:
- 2008
- Onderwerp:
- Medicine History
Public health History
Social medicine History
London (England) Buildings, structures, etc
London (England) History
London (England) Social conditions
Geneeskunde
Geschiedenis - Taal:
- Engels
- Uitgever:
- London : Strange Attractor Press, [2008]
- Plaatsnummer:
- GUISL.602.194 (Museum Dr. Guislain)
- ISBN:
- 0955876109
9780955876103 - Paginering:
- 1 case : illustrations (black and white), maps (colour) ; 22 cm.
- Samenvatting:
- [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 -- gallow, 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.
- Nota:
- In slip case (22 x 16 x 6 cm).
Includes a book of essays, 6 individual walking tour maps and a gazetteer.
Title from slip case. - Permalink:
- https://www.cageweb.be/catalog/cgw01:000816977
