Winner of the John Brinckerhoff Jackson Book Prize, sponsored by The Center for Cultural Landscapes at the UVA School of Architecture
“This book is a very original and accomplished work of garden history, exploring the British eighteenth-century doctor’s garden as an important and neglected site of knowledge creation and dissemination.”—Jonathan Reinarz, author of Past Scents: Historical Perspectives on Smell
“This beautifully written book illuminates our understanding of gardens as centers of medical teaching and research, as sources of experimentation, as places of sociability, and as productive spaces.”—James Beattie, co-editor of the Routledge Research on Gardens in History series, and Chair, Garden History Research Foundation
“In this innovative, impressive book Clare Hickman eschews the traditional focus on the grounds of the landed rich, casting a mass of new light on a rather different range of eighteenth-century gardens. Readable, thought-provoking, and extraordinarily well-researched.”—Tom Williamson, author of Humphry Repton: Landscape Design in an Age of Revolution
“Gardens linked British medical practitioners to a world of science, knowledge, travel, literature, and collecting. In The Doctor’s Garden, Clare Hickman cultivates a visionary landscape history of medicine.”—Annmarie Adams, author of Medicine by Design: The Architect and the Modern Hospital, 1893-1943
“Clare Hickman uncovers a vibrant network of medical gardeners. Their plantings, temples, and observatories may have vanished, but their ethos of enquiry can still inspire.”— Alexandra Harris, author of Weatherland: Writers and Artists under English Skies
