Biography - Porter, Roy (1946-2002): An article from: ...
 Author: Gale Reference Team Binding: Digital Format: HTML Number Of Pages: 21 Publication Date: 2006-01-01 Release Date: 2007-12-16 [... more]
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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]
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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]
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Rewriting the Self
Author: Roy Porter Binding: Kindle Edition Dewey Decimal Number: 126.09 Edition: 1 Format: Kindle Book Number Of Pages: 296 Publication Date: 2007-03-20 Release Date: 2007-03-20 [... more]
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The History of Medical Education in Britain (Clio ...
Author: Roy Porter Author: Vivian Nutton Binding: Paperback EAN: 9789051836110 ISBN: 9051836112 Number Of Pages: 379 Publication Date: 1995-01 [... more]
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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]
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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]
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London: A Social History
A city and its peoples...: Roy Porter, noted and trained as a medical historian, turned his attention to the social development of London, and we are the richer for it. Porter is a Londoner, and has a passion for the city. He is, however, frank in his [... more]
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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]
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Madmen: A Social History of Madhouses, Mad Doctors & ...
Author: Roy Porter Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 362.2094109033 EAN: 9780752437309 ISBN: 0752437305 Number Of Pages: 336 Publication Date: 2004-10-01 [... more]
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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]
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The Making of Geology: Earth Science in Britain 1660-1815
Book Description: Between the mid-seventeenth century and the early nineteenth century there developed in Britain a range of empirical and increasingly secular sciences concerned with the earth. This book presents a detailed account of how this [... more]
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