Porter's charting of the history of medicine affords readers the opportunity as never before to assess its culture and science and its costs and benefits to humankind. "A splendid and thoroughly engrossing book."--"L.A. Times." of illustrations.
British medical historian Roy Porter (1946-2002) surveys Western medicine from antiquity to the present. Porter delivers his usual historically informed, extremely intelligent thinking in chapters dedicated to different subtopics, such as the body, disease, doctors, and surgery, with a writing style that is informal and accessible.
This is 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, plays, paintings, and work and wages.
Roy Porter charts the historical changes in attitude towards madness. From demonization, to institutionalization, to infusion with the fruits of psychopharmacology, this survey looks at the psychiatric discipline from a broad spectrum.
This volume offers to general and specialist readers alike the fullest and most complete survey of the development of science in the eighteenth century, exploring the implications of the 'scientific revolution' of the previous century and the major new growth-points, particularly in the experimental sciences. It is designed to be read as both a ...
Against the backdrop of unprecedented concern for the future of health care, The Cambridge Illustrated 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 lavishly illustrated volume traces the chronology of key developments and events, ...
Describing the chronology of medical history and the development of medical theory and practice around the world, this illustrated book includes a focus on the rise of medical science in the West and the resulting amount of people who have turned to Eastern holistic therapies.
This is a new edition of one of the most successful and established textbooks in the field. It is revised, updated and extended to take into account the latest scholarship and research, and new developments in historiography. It features an extensive annotated bibliography to aid study.This is a concise but wide-ranging account of all aspects of ...
'Roy Porter, a historian of formidable range, turns to urban history in this marvellously lucid, informative and passionate book...Porter's facts are always at the service of the narrative, which has a finely maintained momentum, balancing statistics with the words of historians, diarists and novelists, poets and churchmen: Pepys, Boswell, ...
Porter explores medicine's evolution against the backdrop of its religious, scientific, philosophical, and political implications, and shows how our need to understand where diseases come from and what we can do to control them has inspired medical developments through the ages. A "New York Times" Notable Book for 1998.
This sequel to THE CREATION OF THE MODERN WORLD: THE BRITISH ENLIGHTENMENT focuses on the emergence of the concept of the personal during the 18th century. Taking into account such writers of the time as Swift, Gibbon, Sterne, and Johnson, Roy Porter explores the changes in the intellectual climate of the day that led to a de-emphasis on the body ...
The original words announcing great scientific discoveries, from the first 'Eureka!' to the cloning of Dolly the sheep, can all be found in this fascinating new collection, a major addition to the world-famous "Oxford Quotations" range. An essential reference tool, put together over 15 years with the assistance of a distinguished team of ...
An account of mad doctors and how they 'cared' for their lunatic patients in the 18th century. Roy Porter looks at the bizarre and savage practices of doctors treating people for their 'manias'.
The Macmillan Dictionary of the History of Science is the first dictionary devoted to the history of scientific ideas. Organised alphabetically by concept, it contains more than 700 entries explaining the origins, meaning and significance of the chief theories and ideas that have contributed to the development of science, including medicine, ...
This study surveys the growth of European intervention outside Europe between 1860 and 1914. It treats its subject, 'imperialism', as a process of increasing contact, influence and control, rather than as the nature and consequences of colonial rule. The problems of defining 'imperialism' are considered alongside various analytical approaches to ...
This text, written by members of the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, is designed to cover the history of western medicine from classical antiquity to 1800. As one guiding thread it takes, as its title suggests, the system of medical ideas that in large part went back to the Greeks of the eighth century BC, and played a major role ...
Madness evades definition, divides opinion and frightens and touches us all. This volume of writings reveals, in their own words, the experiences of those that have been declared "mad" by themselves, their doctors or their families, together with observations by those intimately involved with madness. Roy Porter has collected the writings and ...
This text takes a critical look at representations of the body, in death, disease and health, particularly in medical contexts, and images of the healing arts in Britain from the mid-17th to the beginning of the 20th century. The two key assumptions are that the human body is the chief signifier and communicator of all manner of meanings - ...
Science is sometimes viewed as impersonal: a method, a system, a technique for generating knowledge. But it is highly personal. The story of science is the story of the individuals who have discovered its truths. This volume details the lives of the men and women responsible for the world's greatest scientific achievements.
This illustrated chronological chart of the history of medicine from prehistoric to present times features nearly 2,000 fascinating facts, events, people, discoveries, and treatments. The gatefolds present 24-inch timelines with pictures and short descriptions of the advances and breakthroughs.
In general terms, one way of describing the world we live in is to say that it is made up of nature and society, and that human beings belong to both. This is the first volume to be published which addresses the historical contexts of the relations between these two characteristics of human nature. A distinguished international team aims to ...
Against the backdrop of unprecedented concern for the future of health care, 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 volume traces the chronology of key developments and events, while at the same time engaging ...
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