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Medicine Man: The Forgotten Museum of Henry Wellcome

Name: Medicine Man: The Forgotten Museum of Henry Wellcome
Brand: Ken Arnold
SKU: ZWXNQ7BXZU3
Price: 18.99 GBP
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by Ken Arnold

Paperback

Product ID: ZWXNQ7BXZU3

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• Every purchase supports the British Museum

• A paperback book which provides a thorough insight into Henry Wellcome's collections

• With a particular interest in anthropology and the history of medicine, and with ambitions to create a 'Museum of Man', Henry Wellcome (1853 - 1936) built up one of the world's largest but least known museum collections: it has been estimated that in 1930 it was some five times the size of the Louvre

• Now scattered among numerous institutions and studied in a wide range of disciplines, the collection spans centuries and continents, and includes both the beautiful and the banal

• This book explores the collection's contribution to contemporary understandings of health and well-being, providing an intriguing insight into the history of collecting along the way