Events: detail
Pox and Pleasure
- Hosted by:
- Wellcome Collection
- Speaker:
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Mike Jay, editor of 'Medical London: City of Diseases, City of Cures'
- Starts:
- October 19, 2008 at 07:30 pm
- Ends:
- October 19, 2008 at 09:30 pm
- Location:
- Tottenham Court Road Station, London Underground Ltd., (Exit 4, Centre Point), New Oxford Street, London, WC1A 1DD United Kingdom
- Maps:
Description
By day, Soho contains many worlds – the rag trade, the film business, high fashion and high art – but by night it presents its age-old face as London’s pleasure hub, offering entertainment, intoxication and sex. A night stroll brings to life centuries of raucous thrill-seeking, and of the medical characters who have always lurked in its shadow, some offering discreet cures for over-indulgence, others campaigning to cleanse the city of its filth. Go in the footsteps of William Hunter, John Snow and some less savoury characters to uncover the story of medicine and disease in the grubby heart of the West End.
With Mike Jay, editor of ‘Medical London: City of Diseases, City of Cures’
This is an adapted version of a walk published in ‘Medical London: City of Disease, City of Cures’.
- Registration required:
- Yes
- Free:
- Yes
Additional information
Please note that this walk starts at Tottenham Court Road Tube station (Exit 4, Centre Point) and ends at Piccadilly Circus Tube station.
For more information
- Contact person:
- Wellcome Collection Events
- Phone:
- 020 7611 2222
- Email:
- events [ at ] wellcomecollection.org
- Website:
- Pox and Pleasure
