Roy Porter (1) (1946–2002)
Autor/a de The Greatest Benefit to Mankind: A Medical History of Humanity from Antiquity to the Present
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Sobre l'autor
Roy Sydney Porter was born December 31, 1946. He grew up in a south London working class home. He attended Wilson's Grammar School, Camberwell, and won an unheard of scholarship to Cambridge. His starred double first in history at Cambridge University (1968) led to a junior research fellowship at mostra'n més his college, Christ's, followed by a teaching post at Churchill College, Cambridge. His Ph.D. thesis, published as The Making Of Geology (1977), became the first of more than 100 books that he wrote or edited. Porter was a Fellow and Director of Studies in History at Churchill College, Cambridge from 1972 to 1979; Dean from 1977 to 1979; Assistant Lecturer in European History at Cambridge University from 1974 to 1977, Lecturer from 1977 to 1979. He joined the Wellcome Institute fot the History of Medicine in 1979 where he was a Senior Lecturer from 1979 to 1991, a Reader from 1991 to 1993, and finally a Professor in the Social History of Medicine from 1993 to 2001. Porter was Elected a fellow of the British Academy in 1994, and he was also made an honorary fellow by both the Royal College of Physicians and the Royal College of Psychiatrists. Roy Porter died March 4, 2002, at the age of 55. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra'n menys
Obres de Roy Porter
The Greatest Benefit to Mankind: A Medical History of Humanity from Antiquity to the Present (1998) 833 exemplars
The Cambridge Illustrated History of Medicine (Cambridge Illustrated Histories) (1996) 112 exemplars
The Cambridge History of Science, Volume 4: Eighteenth-Century Science (2003) — Editor — 68 exemplars
Patients and Practitioners: Lay Perceptions of Medicine in Pre-industrial Society (Cambridge Studies in the History of… (1986) — Editor — 14 exemplars
The Ferment of Knowledge: Studies in the Historiography of Eighteenth-Century Science (1980) — Editor — 12 exemplars
Doctor of Society: Thomas Beddoes and the Sick Trade in Late Enlightenment England (1991) 4 exemplars
Medicine In The Enlightenment.(Clio Medica/The Wellcome Institute Series in the History of Medicine 29) (Clio Medica,… (1995) 3 exemplars
The Anatomy of Madness - Essays in the History of Psychiatry - Volume III - The Asylum and its Psychiatry (1988) 3 exemplars
Reading is Bad for Your Health 2 exemplars
The History of Medical Education in Britain (Clio Medica/The Wellcome Institute Series in the History of Medicine 30)… (1995) 2 exemplars
Dizionario biografico della storia della medicina e delle scienze naturali Vol.04 (1989) 1 exemplars
Dizionario biografico della storia della medicina e delle scienze naturali Vol.03 (1985) 1 exemplars
Doctors, Politics And Society: Historical Essays.(Clio Medica/The Wellcome Institute Series in the History of Medicine… (1993) — Editor — 1 exemplars
The Eighteenth Century 1 exemplars
Obres associades
Historia del cuerpo I: del renacimiento a la ilustracion (Taurus Historia) (2005) — Col·laborador — 38 exemplars
The Timetables of Medicine : An Illustrated Chronology of the History of Medicine from Prehistory to Present Times (2000) — Introducció — 28 exemplars
The Alice Companion: A Guide to Lewis Carroll's Alice Books (1998) — Pròleg, algunes edicions — 14 exemplars
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- Nom normalitzat
- Porter, Roy
- Nom oficial
- Porter, Roy Sydney
- Data de naixement
- 1946-12-31
- Data de defunció
- 2002-03-03
- Gènere
- male
- Nacionalitat
- UK
- Lloc de naixement
- London, England, UK
- Lloc de defunció
- Saint Leonards, East Sussex, England, UK
- Causa de la mort
- heart attack
- Llocs de residència
- London, England, UK
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, UK
St Leonards-on-Sea, East Sussex, England, UK - Educació
- Christ's College, University of Cambridge (BA|1968|Ph.D|1974)
Wilson's Grammar School, Camberwell - Professions
- medical historian
- Organitzacions
- University of Cambridge (Churchill College)
Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, University College London - Premis i honors
- Fellow, British Academy (1994)
Leo Gershoy Award (1988)
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Estadístiques
- Obres
- 75
- També de
- 8
- Membres
- 5,422
- Popularitat
- #4,597
- Valoració
- 3.7
- Ressenyes
- 47
- ISBN
- 262
- Llengües
- 9
- Preferit
- 8