Finding India: A Fifty Year Magical, Medical Odyssey

About Michael Farthing

Michael Farthing trained as a physician in the UK and USA. As a clinical academic he became engaged in the health issues of the resource-poor countries of the world working in India Central America and sub-Saharan Africa. Although he has written many scientific papers and co-authored and edited more than 20 medical books this is one of his first ventures outside science and medicine. In addition to Finding India he has written Leonardo da Vinci: Under the Skin with his brother Stephen Farthing RA published in 2019 by the Royal Academy. He is an Honorary Professor at UCL an Emeritus Professor at the University of Sussex and lives between London and Sussex. He is Chair of the Charleston Trust the Brighton West Pier Trust and the Royal Medical Benevolent Fund.