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Roy Porter
Birth date: December 31, 1946
Died: March 03, 2002
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Health, Mind & Body, History, Psychology
Roy Porter's Books
Blood and Guts: A Short History of Medicine - Roy Porter Madness: A Brief History - Roy Porter London: A Social History - Roy Porter Flesh in the Age of Reason: The Modern Foundations of Body and Soul - Roy Porter, Simon Schama English Society in the Eighteenth Century - Roy Porter Madmen: A Social History of Madhouses, Mad Doctors & Lunatics - Roy Porter Fins de Siecle: How Centuries End, 1400-2000 - Asa Briggs, Daniel Snowman, Paul Strohm, Malcolm Vale, Ian Archer, Peter Earle, Roy Porter Romanticism in National Context - Roy Porter The Ferment of Knowledge: Studies in the... The Ferment of Knowledge: Studies in the Historiography of Eighteenth-Century Science - George S. Rousseau, Roy Porter Exoticism In The Enlightenment - G.S. Ro... Exoticism In The Enlightenment - G.S. Rousseau, Roy Porter Reassessing Foucault: Power, Medicine and the Body (Routledge Studies in the Social History of Medicine) - Colin Jones, Roy Porter The Facts of Life: The Creation of Sexual Knowledge in Britain, 1650-1950 - Roy Porter, Lesley A. Hall Religion Health & Suffering - Roy Porter Literature & Medicine During The Eightee... Literature & Medicine During The Eighteenth Century - Marie Mulvey Roberts, Roy Porter Dictionary of the History of Science - W.F. Bynum, Roy Porter, E. Janet Browne The Hutchinson Dictionary Of Scientific ... The Hutchinson Dictionary Of Scientific Biography (Helicon Science) - Roy Porter In Sickness and in Health: The British E... In Sickness and in Health: The British Experience, 1650-1850 - Dorothy Porter, Roy Porter Fin de Siècle and its Legacy - Mikulas Teich, Roy Porter Medical Fringe & Medical Orthodoxy, 1750... Medical Fringe & Medical Orthodoxy, 1750-1850 - W.F. Bynum, Roy Porter Illustrations of Madness - Roy Porter Illustrations of Madness - Roy Porter
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Flesh in the Age of Reason: The Modern Foundations of Body and Soul - Roy Porter, Simon Schama
Blood and Guts: A Short History of Medicine - Roy Porter
London: A Social History - Roy Porter
English Society in the Eighteenth Century - Roy Porter
Fins de Siecle: How Centuries End, 1400-2000 - Asa Briggs, Daniel Snowman, Paul Strohm, Malcolm Vale, Ian Archer, Peter Earle, Roy Porter
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Warwick
Warwick rated it 11 years ago
text Blood & Guts
This is one of those ‘surrogate’ books – I bought it because I really wanted something else, so any disappointment is my own fault.The book I wanted was Porter's The Greatest Benefit to Mankind, his mammoth tome on the history of medicine, but my friendly neighbourhood bookshops never seem to have i...
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The Bittern
The Bittern rated it 12 years ago
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Erudite without being pretentious. I admire Porter for his attempts to make comprehensible a field of study which has often been dominated by scholars shouting very loudly but very incoherently. That said, I did detect a progressivist bias, as well as a hostility to some of Foucault's ideas. He's en...
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