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Flesh in the Age of Reason: The Modern Foundations of ...
Great Read: I cannot believe no one has reviewed Roy Porter's last book. It reminds me of the Metaphysical Club, but it is perhaps a bit more wry. I enjoyed it thoroughly and have added it to my collection of books on the Enlightenment. It was [... more]
$29.95
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English Society in the Eighteenth Century, Second ...
A Pure Delight: I come late to Porter, and I certainly wish I hadn't. It's almost enough to make me surrender my credentials as a dyed-in-the-wool lover of English History. The deceased physician-cum-historian was a prolific writer, turning out works on [... more]
$16.00
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Madness: A Brief History
The Long View of Lunacy: Roy Porter died recently at the age of 55, but produced over eighty books on a wide range of subjects, from the Enlightenment to the English treatment of insanity in various historic periods. It would not be surprising if this [... more]
$22.00
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Madness: A Brief History
The Long View of Lunacy: Roy Porter died recently at the age of 55, but produced over eighty books on a wide range of subjects, from the Enlightenment to the English treatment of insanity in various historic periods. It would not be surprising if this [... more]
$19.95
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Gout: The Patrician Malady
Amazon.com Review: In their study of an ailment that has tormented the big toes of some big men--Kant, Samuel Johnson, Ben Franklin, Thomas Jefferson--Porter and Rousseau turn the argument of Susan Sontag in Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and its Metaphors [... more]
$55.00
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Gout
Amazon.com Review: In their study of an ailment that has tormented the big toes of some big men--Kant, Samuel Johnson, Ben Franklin, Thomas Jefferson--Porter and Rousseau turn the argument of Susan Sontag in Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and its Metaphors [... more]
$27.00
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Blood and Guts: A Short History of Medicine
A quick and unsettling read: In a sense this is a "lite" version of the late Roy Porter's well-received history of medicine from 1997, entitled The Greatest Benefit to Mankind. He is also the editor of The Cambridge Illustrated History of [... more]
$21.95
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Blood and Guts: A Short History of Medicine
A quick and unsettling read: In a sense this is a "lite" version of the late Roy Porter's well-received history of medicine from 1997, entitled The Greatest Benefit to Mankind. He is also the editor of The Cambridge Illustrated History of [... more]
$13.95
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The Greatest Benefit to Mankind: A Medical History of ...
Amazon.com Review: Samuel Johnson once called the medical profession "the greatest benefit to mankind." In the 20th century, the quality of that benefit has improved more and more rapidly than at any other comparable time in history. With all [... more]
$19.95
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Drugs and Narcotics in History
Book Description: This collection of new essays explores the complex and contested histories of drugs and narcotics in societies from ancient Greece to the present day. The Greek term pharmakon means both medicament and poison. The book shows how this [... more]
$45.00
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London: A Social History (A "New York Times" notable ...
Not a social history, but it's a wonderful book nonetheless: Roy Porter's book covers the full breadth of London history, from Roman times to approximately 1990, with the Victoria era and the post-WWII era receiving particularly heavy emphasis. A more [... more]
$19.95
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Madmen: A Social History of Madhouses, Mad Doctors & ...
Author: Roy Porter Binding: Hardcover Dewey Decimal Number: 610 EAN: 9780752419725 ISBN: 0752419722 Number Of Pages: 344 Publication Date: 2006-03-01 [... more]
$35.00
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