Walking London's medical history

• Main Author: Black, Nick (Author)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: London Hodder Arnold, Hachette UK 2012
• Edition: Second edition
• Subjects: Public Health > History; Health Facilities > History; Schools, Medical > History; Urban Health > History; History, Modern 1601-; London
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Highly Commended, BMA Medical Book Awards 2013 The history of health care is complex, confusing, and contested. It involves more than just the creation of hospitals and dispensaries, infirmaries, and health centers. There are also royal colleges, trades unions, medical schools, nurses' homes,...

Table of Contents:

• Walk 1. Church, crown and city: Covent Garden (4.8 km; 2 hours)
• Walk 2: The lost hospitals of St. Luke's: St. Luke's (3.7 km; 1.5 hours)
• Walk 3. A cradle of reform: St. Pancras & Bloomsbury (3.5 km; 2 hours)
• Walk 4. the challenging isle: Soho (2.9 km; 1.5 hours)
• Walk 5. Merge or move: Fitzrovia (4.6 km; 2 hours)
• Walk 6. From trades to professions: Marylebone (4.4 km; 2 hours)
• Walk 7. 'Merrie Islington' to 'the contagion of numbers': Finsbury (2.6 km; 1.5 hours) & Islington (3.8 km; 2 hours)
• Motoring tour: no city is an island: North and east Kent (160 miles; 3 days by car).