The Sick Rose

Disease and the Art of Medical Illustration

By: Richard Barnett

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Hardcover | 1 April 2014 | Edition Number 1

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256 Pages

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The Sick Rose is a beautifully gruesome and strangely fascinating visual tour through disease in an age before colour photography. This stunning volume, combining detailed illustrations of afflicted patients from some of the world’s rarest medical books, forms an unforgettable and profoundly human reminder of mankind’s struggle with disease. Incorporating historic maps, pioneering charts and contemporary case notes, Richard Barnett’s evocative overview reveals the fears and obsessions of an era gripped by epidemics. Historical objects from the Wellcome Collection, such as early stethoscopes and vaccination kits, are also featured, as well as additional caricatures, diagrams, paintings and maps. A fascinating Wunderkammer of a book that balances social history and astonishing art. It will enthral artists, designers, historians, fans of Francis Bacon, lovers of Zola, readers of Dickens, reciters of Keats and the incurably curious everywhere.

About the Author

Richard Barnett is a medical historian and a Wellcome Trust Engagement Fellow. His first book, Medical London: City of Diseases, City of Cures, was Book of the Week on Radio 4.

Industry Reviews

'It's a transfixing, sublime collection of portraits of the highest art' - The Times
'Astonishing images of the dissected and diseased ... superbly erudite and lucid accompanying text ... Here we see unpacked the mortal elements of many anonymous individuals - and by extension our own' - Will Self, The Guardian
'Appalling, if brilliantly rendered .... A fascinating book, albeit only for those with strong stomachs' - Nature
'A fascinating, gruesome look at how the medical profession depicted afflictions before colour photography' - The Big Issue

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