Medical London : city of diseases, city of cures / Richard Barnett ; [edited by] Mike Jay.

London : Strange Attractor, 2008.

2 volumes (xxv, 215; 200 pages), 6 pamphlets : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 22 cm in slip-case.

Sick city : two thousand years of life and death in London / essays by Richard Barnett ; edited by Mike Jay -- Anatomy of the city : a guide to medical London / Richard Barnett -- Walk one, Life and death by water : a walk along the medieval Thames / Richard Barnett -- Walk two, In the footsteps of Daniel Defoe : a journey through the 'plague year' / Richard Barnett -- Walk three, Gallows, ghosts and golden boys : a day in the life of an eighteenth-century medical student / Richard Barnett --- Walk four, Tall ships and tropical diseases : medicine and the British Empire in Greenwich / Richard Barnett -- Walk five, Pox and pleasure : Soho by night / Richard Barnett -- Walk six, From homeopaths to psychopaths : Bohemian medicine in Chelsea / Richard Barnett.