{"product_id":"9780955876103","title":"Medical London","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA stunningly-presented guide to London's past that charts the many roles that diseases, treatments and cures have played in the city's sprawling story — and how London, in turn, has shaped the professions and practices of modern medicine.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA unique, stunningly-presented guide to London's past and a treasure trove of information for historians, residents, medical professionals and tourists, \u003ci\u003eMedical London\u003c\/i\u003e charts the many roles that diseases, treatments and cures have played in the city's sprawling story. It also reveals how London, in turn, has shaped the professions and practices of modern medicine.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eMedical London\u003c\/i\u003e comprises three parts:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAvolume 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA definitive guideto London's medical landscape: its museums and hospitals, its grand monuments and secret corners, and the characters and events that lie behind them.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSix elegantly designedmaps for self-guided walks, from Daniel Defoe's Plague Year wanderings to the druggists of Soho's night haunts, the homeopaths of bohemian Chelsea to the naval surgeons of maritime Greenwich.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePublished in collaboration with Wellcome Collection.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Strange Attractor","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47008567165168,"sku":"9780955876103","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780955876103_p0.jpg?v=1763860820","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780955876103","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}