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Blood and Guts: A Short History of Medicine by Roy Porter
Category: History
Mankind's battle to stay alive is the greatest of all subjects. This brief, witty and unusual book by Britain's greatest medical historian compresses into a tiny span a lifetime spent thinking about millennia of human ingenuity in the quest to cheat death. Each chapter sums up one of these battlefields ...Show more
Bodies Politic: Disease, Death and Doctors in Britain, 1650-1900 by Roy Porter
Category: History
A magisterial account by Roy Porter of representations of the body in health, disease and deathIn this historical tour de force, now available in B-format paperback, Roy Porter takes a critical look at representations of the body in health, disease and death in Britain from the mid-seventeenth to the tw ...Show more
ENLIGHTENMENT; BRITAIN AN by Roy Porter
Category: History
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 for considering Britain the true home of modernity - a country driven by an exuberance, diversity and power of invention comparable onl ...Show more
Flesh in the Age of Reason by Roy Porter
Category: unmapped | Series: Allen Lane History Ser.
In this "readable and humane book" (Los Angeles Times Book Review), the late historian Roy Porter traces the course of man's philosophical journey from the superstitious, spiritually obsessed Dark Ages to our modern perspective, based on reason and grounded in the body. He demonstrates how the explosion ...Show more
Flesh in the Age of Reason by Roy Porter
Category: History
'As an introduction to early modern thinking and the impact of past ideas on present lives, this book can find few equals and no superiors. Porter is a witty, humane writer with an extraordinary vocabulary and a sparkling sense of fun. Whether he is quoting from obscure medical texts or analysing scabro ...Show more
Madmen : A Social History of Madhouses, Mad-doctors and Lunatics by Roy Porter
Category: History
The Greatest Benefit to Mankind : A Medical History of Humanity by Roy Porter
Category: Science
Medicine advances ever faster, and with it a capacity not just to overcome sickness, but to transform the nature of life itself. Beginning in antiquity, Roy Porter's titanic history examines the traditions of both East and West to chart how this revolution came about and how life for human beings, in so ...Show more
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