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  • The Greatest Benefit to Mankind

    A Medical History of Humanity

    by Roy Porter ...
    This edition does not include illustrations.A definitive study of the history of medicine, from the earliest humans to the present day.Medicine is advancing at an incredible rate. We now have the ability to overcome sickness but also to transform the nature of life itself: in many parts of the world, human existence has simply ceased to be ‘nasty, brutish and short’. In this titanic history of ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • Madness:A Brief History

    A Brief History

    by Roy Porter ...
    This fascinating story of madness reveals the radically different perceptions of madness and approaches to its treatment, from antiquity to the present day.Roy Porter explores what we really mean by 'madness', covering an enormous range of topics from witches to creative geniuses, electric shock therapy to sexual deviancy, psychoanalysis to prozac.The origins of current debates about how we define ... Read more

    $16.19 USD

  • Flesh in the Age of Reason

    by Roy Porter ...
    '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 scabrous diaries, dishing the dirt on long-dead bigwigs or evoking sympathy for human suffering, his ... Read more

    $22.39 USD

  • The Penguin Social History of Britain

    English Society in the Eighteenth Century

    by Roy Porter ...
    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. ... Read more

    $14.59 USD

  • Blood and Guts

    A Short History of Medicine

    by Roy Porter ...
    "Ideas tumble out of Porter like wonders from some scholarly horn of plenty." —Sherwin B. Nuland, The New RepublicAn eminently readable, entertaining romp through the history of our vain and valiant efforts to heal ourselves. Mankind's battle to stay alive and healthy for as long as possible is our oldest, most universal struggle. With his characteristic wit and vastly informed historical scope, ... Read more

    $12.39 USD

  • Bodies Politic

    Disease, Death and Doctors in Britain, 1650–1900

    by Roy Porter ...
    Series series Picturing History
    In 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 twentieth century. Porter argues that great symbolic weight was attached to contrasting conceptions of the healthy and diseased body, and that such ideas were mapped onto antithetical notions ... Read more

    $13.59 USD

  • Doctor of Society

    Tom Beddoes and the Sick Trade in Late-Enlightenment England

    by Roy Porter ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: The History of Social Welfare
    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 age of Enlightenment was crucially important in the creation of modern thinking about disease, doctors and society. To illustrate this viewpoint, he focuses on Thomas Beddoes, a prominent doctor of the eighteenth ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    English Society in the Eighteenth Century

    by Roy Porter ...
    Narrated by Simon Vance ...

    Unabridged

    16 hours 1 min

    In this boldly drawn portrait of eighteenth-century England, Roy Porter defines a nation from its princes to its paupers, from its metropolis to its smallest hamlet. The topics covered run the gamut, covering diet, housing, prisons, rural festivals, bordellos, plays, paintings, and work and wages. This text’s broad scope makes it a must-have for any lover of English history, or history in general. ... Read more

    $27.95 USD

  • The Greatest Benefit to Mankind

    by Roy Porter ...
    Series series The Norton History of Science
    **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 Die**Hailed as "a remarkable achievement" (Boston Globe) and as "a triumph: simultaneously entertaining and instructive, witty and thought-provoking…a splendid and thoroughly engrossing book" (Los Angeles Times ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Algorithm Party

    by Roy Porter ...
    Series Book 40 - Rough Trade Edition
    Algorithm Party is a debut publication in which an utterly original, fully-formed literary voice announces itself, somehow full of life, on the page. Liverpool's spoken-word performer Roy's deft, articulate and startlingly observed stories veer from the comic to the calamitous in a breath, cutting to the quick of the broad swathe of people and personalities that comprise his native city, from ... Read more

    $5.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Anatomy Of Madness Vol 3

    by W F Bynum, Michael Shepherd, Roy Porter ...
    This is a collection of essays on the history of Psychiatry. The final Volume III offers works around the psychiatry of the Asylum in countries such as Denmark, British India, Italy, Britain, Ireland, Scotland, France and America. ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Anatomy Of Madness Vol 1

    by W F Bynum, Michael Shepherd, Roy Porter ...
    This is a collection of essays on the history of Psychiatry. Volume I of three, offers works around people and ideas including those of Samuel Johnson, Jon Conolly, Descartes, Freud, Darwin and Hamlet. Most of the papers in these volumes arose from a seminar series on the history of psychiatry and a one-day seminar on the same theme held at the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, ... Read more

    $73.99 USD