Richard Barnett is a historian of science and medicine and a poet. After studying medicine in London he taught at Cambridge, UCL, and other leading institutions for almost two decades. In 2011 he received one of the first Wellcome Trust Engagement Fellowships. He is the author of eight books, including Medical London: City of Diseases: City of Cures, a Book of the Week on BBC Radio 4, and Wherever We Are When We Come To The End, a long poem in the voice of Ludwig Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus. He has written for (inter alia) the Lancet and the London Review of Books, and has contributed to TV and radio documentaries for the BBC, PBS, NPR, China Central and many other networks.
