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Mary Wakefield

Beware the back-cracker quacks of Harley Street

19 August 2017

9:00 AM

19 August 2017

9:00 AM

All along Harley Street, charlatans and medical experts have set up side by side with no obvious way to tell them apart. The same wide steps lead up to the same glossy front doors, all with prestigious brass knobs. Each separate house is itself a layered stack of quacks and docs: radiology one floor above absence healing, flower therapy down the corridor from paediatric ENT.

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