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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

London: A Social History (1994) 435 exemplars
Madness: A Brief History (2002) 404 exemplars
England in the Eighteenth Century (1998) 126 exemplars
Dictionary of the History of Science (1981) — Editor — 96 exemplars
The Faber Book of Madness (1991) 95 exemplars
Gibbon: Making History (1988) 71 exemplars
Consumption and the world of goods (1993) — Editor — 47 exemplars
Gout: The Patrician Malady (1998) 44 exemplars
The Cambridge History of Medicine (2006) — Editor; Col·laborador — 42 exemplars
The Biographical Dictionary of Scientists (1982) — Editor — 36 exemplars
Revolution in History (1986) 21 exemplars
The Renaissance in National Context (1991) — Editor — 20 exemplars
Sexual Underworlds of the Enlightenment (1600) — Editor — 18 exemplars
Drugs and Narcotics in History (1995) 18 exemplars
Myths of the English (1992) 17 exemplars
The Age of Anxiety (1996) — Editor — 16 exemplars
The Social History of Language (1987) — Editor — 15 exemplars
Inventing Human Science: Eighteenth-Century Domains (1995) — Editor — 10 exemplars
BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY OF SCIENTISTS.|THE (2000) — Editor — 8 exemplars
Romanticism in National Context (1988) — Editor — 7 exemplars
The Dialectics of Friendship (1989) — Editor — 4 exemplars
Rape (1986) — Editor — 3 exemplars

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A history of London (1998) — Pròleg, algunes edicions351 exemplars
The Norton History of Chemistry (1992) — Series editor — 155 exemplars
The Modern Historiography Reader: Western Sources (2008) — Col·laborador — 37 exemplars
The Timechart History of Medicine (1999) — Introducció — 16 exemplars
The Alice Companion: A Guide to Lewis Carroll's Alice Books (1998) — Pròleg, algunes edicions14 exemplars
Medicine, Mortality and the Book Trade (1998) — Col·laborador — 8 exemplars

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Roy Porter's "Madmen: A Social History of Madhouses, Mad-Doctors and Lunatics" was far superior to his "A Social History of Madness." In fact, a majority of the latter appears throughout this one, except with better narrative flow and context.

The title is misleading though. It is a social history of madness in the 18th century specifically, and even then ONLY in England. Which I don't mind, as the 18th century is my specialty, but someone else might. Among the excerpts from contemporary publications and historically (in)famous name drops, it covers the rise of psychiatry as a science, the "English Malady" and how "having nerves was almost as much a status symbol as having taste" (think Mrs. Bennet from Pride and Prejudice!), the practice of boarding "lunatiks" and the lucrative business of private madhouses, St. Luke's Asylum vs Bethlem Hospital, the York Retreat and humane treatment, and the myth of the Great Confinement.

Overall a fascinating read even if the author is a little repetitive at times. I learned quite a lot and took a significant amount of notes!
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asukamaxwell | Hi ha 1 ressenya més | Feb 3, 2022 |
There exist few ways to understand something better than understanding its history. Nuanced details make more sense when attached to the historical narrative. Such is certainly the case in medicine, the universal human struggle against death. This book, an edited collection of histories of various aspects of medicine, offers these explanations with clarity and erudition. It offers hard science commingled with human insight – a coupling appropriate for the task of healing.

Students of medicine or even future students of medicine would do well to pay heed to this book. It presents a comprehensive picture of the medical enterprise. It offers insight into why individuals look for healing and what that healing consists of. While having a particular focus on the West – and especially Britain (due to its Cambridge origins) – this book attempts to integrate other forms of healing into its analyses, like homeopathy, acupuncture, and so-called alternative medicine. American medicine is frequently referenced, perhaps because of its disproportionate impact on world medicine through research.

Medical research is also well-covered in this history alongside clinical medicine. Philosophical underpinnings, like the mechanistic view of the body popularized in the Renaissance, are explained in light of the developing influence they garnered. This book does not explain in detail non-Western forms of medicine, but straightforwardly admits this fact in the text. It does treat those forms of medicine in passing.

As alluded to in the title, numerous illustrations are provided and deepen readers’ experiences. Indeed, in a sensory field like medicine, these images are almost essential. A newer edition of this book exists, one without “illustrated” in the title; I do not know if these images exist in that text, but I chose this book because of the need for good images. Indeed, this book could serve as a good book for a physician’s or nurse’s coffee table. For those looking to dig deeper into particular topics in the history of medicine, an appendix of references is provided.

This book meets several potential audiences. Medical trainees are first among those. Anyone interested in the medical enterprise in an international setting – its past, present, and future – can benefit from a read. Also, current practitioners of the medical arts can brush up on their knowledge of the past. Mysteries of the present can be explained through stories of the past – I found this to be the case several times during my reading. This book deals with an important topic, one often overlooked by education’s science-heavy curricula. Perhaps another generation can benefit from reading its contents.
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scottjpearson | Sep 12, 2021 |
I tried. I coffee'ed up and put in the time. Multiple reading sessions, high hopes and the kind of determination only an accomplished sufferer of OCD could understand. I didn't want to NOT read this. So 200 pages in and it's over.

Roy just couldn't stop trying to prove his point before he had even bothered to make it. I'm all for backing a dream and making your case strongly. Impassioned authorship typically makes for a great read. There was just too much philosophy and far too little content. Please teach me about the Enlightenment in Britain before trying to talk me into its importance. Making arguments using facts that I have yet to learn (and was hoping to learn in this book) is confusing and de-motivating.

So that's all. I'm quitting you book.
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ednasilrak | Hi ha 4 ressenyes més | Jun 17, 2021 |

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