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Roy Porter (Former Professor of the Social History of Medicine, Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine, University College London)
What has it been like to be insane? How have the mad been treated? Is madness real or is it just a label? This fascinating story of madness reveals the…
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The fabulous companion cookbook to Professor Roy Taylor MBE's bestselling series: Life Without Diabetes and Your Simple Guide to Reversing Type 2 Diabetes
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A magisterial account by Roy Porter of representations of the body in health, disease and death.
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The culmination of a lifelong interest in the metaphysics of the body by the premier social historian of medicine. How did we come to a modern understanding of our bodies…
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Originally published in 1983, The Earth Sciences: An Annotated Bibliography is a compact and thematically organized guide that provides comprehensive access to themes and areas of study in the earth…
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Two stories telling of the author’s life and his journey into the Christian ministry
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This book, now in a fully updated second edition, sympathetically explores the complexities of the Enlightenment. Synthesizing and evaluating the latest scholarship, it offers a new and comprehensive vision of…
Explores the rise of popularized medical writings which gave simple advice for home treatments, charting the rise from the Victorian age and focusing on the different experiences of Britain, the…
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For generations the traditional focus for those wishing to understand the roots of the modern world has been France on the eve of the Revolution. This work makes a case…
‘Nerves’ became a highly eligible illness in early Georgian London and Bath. What Freud was for Vienna at the end of the nineteenth-century, George Cheyne was for eighteenth-century fashionable ailments…
A lively and controversial exploration of ideas of the self in the western cultural tradition from the Renaissance to the present. Highly esteemed contributors analyse differing models of personal identity…
First published in 1992, this book explores how we come to hold our present attitudes towards health, sickness and the medical profession. Roy Porter argues that the outlook of the…
Looking at urban history, this work balances statistics with the words of historians, diarists and novelists, poets and churchmen such as: Pepys, Boswell, Fielding, Walpole, Blake, Mayhew, Wells, Woolf, and…
The Cambridge History of Medicine surveys the rise of medicine in the West from classical times to the present. Covering both the social and scientific history of medicine, this 2006…
This book presents a detailed account of how the discipline of geology developed between the mid-seventeenth century and the early nineteenth century.
The essays in this volume provide an unusual historical perspective on the experience of illness: they try to reconstruct what being ill (from a minor ailment to fatal sickness) was…
This volume offers to general and specialist readers alike the fullest and most complete survey of the development of science in the eighteenth century. It is designed to be read…
Discusses about millennia of human ingenuity in the quest to cheat death. This book features various chapters that sum up one of these battlefields such as surgery, doctors, disease, hospitals…
A portrait of 18th century England, from its princes to its paupers, from its metropolis to its smallest hamlet. The topics covered include - diet, housing, prisons, rural festivals, bordellos…
This is the first modern one-volume history of London from Roman times to the present. Roy Porter touches the pulse of his hometown and makes it our own, capturing London’s…
Porter’s [book] has been long in the making and has been worth waiting for. -Peter Gay, Times Literary Supplement
Ideas tumble out of Porter like wonders from some scholarly horn of plenty. -Sherwin B. Nuland, The New Republic
A heroic feat of scholarship. -New York Times Book Review
An exploration of Englishness - the images, characters, myths and peculiarities that have contributed to the self-image of a nation over the last few hundred years. The book discusses the…
Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize A panoramic and perfectly magnificent intellectual history of medicine…This is the book that delivers it all. -Sherwin Nuland, author of How We…
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Pre-modern society was overshadowed by illness and the threat of death. This book examines the sick in Britain between 1650-1850, focusing on the personal and sociological bonds between patients and…
Written in honour of eminent historian Roy Porter by twenty of his colleagues and students, the collection renders cutting edge scholarship accessible.
Roy Porter (Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, London)
A study of disease, medicine and their impact on English society.
Mary Fulbrook
The two Germanies, arising from the unpromising ashes of defeated Nazi Germany, came to represent opposing models of state and society.
Originally published in 1987, Problems and Methods in the History of Medicine is a collection of papers surveying and assessing the particular approaches and techniques which have been used in…
The study of a past society in terms of what it consumes rather than what it produces is a relatively new development. This is the first of three volumes to…
First published in 1989, The Dialectics of Friendship explores the ideals and paradoxes of friendship against the backdrop of other relationships.
Thomas Trotter
It was during the course of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries that the problem of chronic alcohol dependence in modern society and its consequent medical effects emerged. The topic of…
This study critically examines the implications of Foucault’s work for students and researchers in a wide selection of areas in the social and human sciences.
Though Foucault is now widely taught in universities, his writings are notoriously difficult. This vital guide critically examines the implications of his work for students and researchers across the range…
The study of a past society in terms of what it consumed, rather than what it produced, is a relatively new development. This is the first of three volumes to…
John Haslam
John Haslam’s Illustrations of Madness , written in 1810, occupies a special place in psychiatric history, for it was the first book-length account of one single psychiatric case written by…
