Medical London, just published by Strange Attractor Press and the Wellcome Trust, is the latest in a long line of books to refract our city through a thematic lens. We've dutifully devoured Underground London, Violent London, Mapping London, Secret London...and a shelf full of similar titles that collectively auger the publication of Barrel-scraper's London sometime in the next few years. So why should we care about, much less buy, Medical London? Like the Hippocratic......

Medical London, published by Wellcome in October, is a Londony treasure trove in a smart burgundy box; a beautiful and enlightening compendium from our favourite Euston Road residents. Here's what you need to know to get this on your shopping list. Medical London consists of 2 books; "Sick City", a softback essay collection exploring medicine, life and death in London which looks beautifully illustrated and decorated with literary references. "Anatomy of the City" is......

The Performing Medicine season starts tomorrow, bringing together talent from The Clod Ensemble, Barts and The London School of Medicine and the Department of Drama at Queen Mary, University of London. There's a programme of performances, conversations, workshops and a symposium looking at how the visual and performing arts can enhance and explore contemporary medical practice. It's not just the effectiveness of the occasional sock puppet in the children's ward that is being addresssed;......

Monopoly pub crawl? Boring. Circle Line pub crawl? Banned. It's high time someone developed a few new drinking tours around the capital. We started off with a sojourn around the variable boozers of London's train stations. Our conclusion? Nice, grim, grim, oooo, not so grim, grim, grim, ug. Now, to mark the opening of the Royal Institution's plush new bar and restaurant (more on that later this month), we decided to raise a glass......