Walking Londons Medical History Second Edition

Author : Nick Black
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1000515494
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Walking London's Medical History Second Edition written by Nick Black and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2021-09-01 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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, coroners’ courts, nursing sisterhoods, ambulance stations, patients’ organizations, and medical missions. Usually, to enhance our understanding we sit and read books, or, nowadays, surf the Internet. But it’s more fun to go out, visit the buildings where events unfolded and transport yourself back in time. The story of how health care has developed from medieval times to the present day is told through seven walks in central London, each with a key theme, such as: Competition between the church, crown, and city for control Changing fortunes of particular districts Radical reform between 1840 and 1880 Individual creativity and entrepreneurship Hospitals’ unavoidable choice between merger or migration Transformation of health care trades into professions Development of primary care The book takes as much interest in one of the six ambulance stations build in 1915 by the London County Council as it does in the grandest teaching hospital. Although some important buildings have been destroyed, and others are threatened, many remain. The walks aim to help preserve our legacy as, increasingly, former health care buildings are converted into hotels, offices, homes, and shops. Awareness of their original functions is in danger of being lost. The book also aims to increase our understanding of the current challenges we face in trying to improve health care. For there are many lessons to be learnt from the past. Packed full of curious and surprising facts about medicine and beautifully illustrated with maps, photographs, and images, this is the perfect guide book for anyone with a passion for urban walks, the history of London, and, of course, medicine.

Author : Peter Ackroyd
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 9781853156199
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Walking London's Medical History written by Peter Ackroyd and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2006-10-27 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating guide to medical London, Walking London's Medical History contains seven guided walks around London that focus on the rich medical history surrounding each area. Each walk is centred around a medical theme. History and past events are bought to life as sex, murder and intrigue mingle with medical events and figures in by-gone times. This is London at its most graphic, not only are readers taken on a journey into the past but they are given an extended and detailed tour around the area. Linking together past and contemporary events in healthcare, the reader is able to familiarise themselves with the developments of medicine through the ages. Packed full of curious and surprising facts about medicine and beautifully illustrated with maps, photographs and images, and with a foreword written by bestselling author Peter Ackroyd, this is the perfect guide book for anyone with a passion for urban walks, the history of London and, of course, medicine. 'Walks you'll actually want to go on.' Tom Lamont, Editor, Time Out: London for Londoners 'Anyone interested in [London's] unwholesome and insalubrious past will wish to read this book.' Peter Ackroyd, bestselling author of London: The Biography Winner of first prize in the basis of medicine category, BMA Medical Book Competition, 2007

Author : Elihu BURRITT
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A walk from London to John O'Groat's ... Second edition written by Elihu BURRITT and published by . This book was released on 1864 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Rosemary Ashton
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 030015447X
Total Pages : 395 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Victorian Bloomsbury written by Rosemary Ashton and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2012-11-13 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While Bloomsbury is now associated with Virginia Woolf and her early-20th-century circle of writers and artists, the neighbourhood was originally the undisputed intellectual quarter of 19th-century London. This title presents a rich history of the great Bloomsbury pioneersthe educational, medical, and social reformists who led crusades for all.

Author : James Earls
Publisher : North Atlantic Books
ISBN 13 : 1623174430
Total Pages : 207 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Born to Walk, Second Edition written by James Earls and published by North Atlantic Books. This book was released on 2020-06-23 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The revised edition of the definitive book on the mechanics, mysteries, and methods of upright walking The ability to walk upright on two legs is one of the major traits distinguishing us as humans, and yet the reasons for its development remain a mystery among scientists. In Born to Walk, author James Earls explores the mystery of walking's evolution by describing the complex mechanisms enabling us to be efficient in bipedal gait. Viewing the whole body as an interconnected unit, he explains how we can regain a flowing efficiency within our gait--an efficiency which is part of our natural design. Based on Thomas Myers's Anatomy Trains model of human anatomy, as well as the latest science in paleoanthropology, sports medicine, and anatomy, Earls's work demonstrates how the whole body collaborates in walking, and distills the complex actions into a simple sequence of "essential events" that engage the myofascia and utilize its full potential. The second and revised edition of this book provides bodyworkers, physical therapists and movement teachers with new research on assessment, diagnosis, and treatment approaches. Earls offers a convenient model for understanding the complexity of movement while gaining a deeper insight into the physiology and mechanics of the walking process. This book is designed for movement therapy practitioners, physiotherapists, osteopaths, chiropractors, massage therapists, and bodyworkers hoping to understand gait and its mechanics. It will also appeal to anyone with an interest in evolution and movement.

Author : Alzina Stone Dale
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 0595315135
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mystery Reader's Walking Guide written by Alzina Stone Dale and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2004-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An intriguing 13 walks in London, featuring mystery writers and their detectives from Sherlock Holmes to Lord Peter Wimsee and Scotland Yard's Adam Dalgleish. An Ideal book for exploring London by foot or snug in your favorite armchair. Includes places of interest and restaurant suggestions.

Author : Christina Henry De Tessan
Publisher : Chronicle Books
ISBN 13 : 9780811838436
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book City Walks written by Christina Henry De Tessan and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2004 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1092 pages
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Author : Salvatore Rubbino
Publisher : Walker
ISBN 13 : 9781406337792
Total Pages : 0 pages
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Download or read book A Walk in London written by Salvatore Rubbino and published by Walker. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: London - the perfect place for a girl and her mother to spend the day! Follow them as they alight the classic red bus and begin a whirlwind tour of some of London's most iconic land marks.

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Total Pages : 554 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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