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ISBN: 9780141010649 - Blood and Guts Bestseller Blood and Guts
Roy Porter

ISBN10: 0141010649  ISBN13: 9780141010649
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Edition: New edition
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 26 Jun 2003
Discusses about millennia of human ingenuity in the quest to cheat death. This book features various chapters that sum up one of these battlefields such as surgery, doctors, disease, hospitals, laboratories and the human body. It is suitable for... More

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ISBN: 9780006374541 - The Greatest Benefit to Mankind The Greatest Benefit to Mankind
Roy Porter

ISBN10: 0006374549  ISBN13: 9780006374541
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Fontana Press
Edition: New edition
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 01 Feb 1999
A definitive study of the history of medicine, from the earliest humans to the present day. 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... More

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ISBN: 9780192802675 - Madness Madness
Roy Porter

ISBN10: 0192802674  ISBN13: 9780192802675
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Edition: illustrated edition
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 13 Mar 2003
Looking back on his confinement to Bedlam, Restoration playwright Nathaniel Lee declared: "They called me mad, and I called them mad, and damn them, they outvoted me." As Roy Porter shows in Madness: A Brief History, thinking about who qualifies... More

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ISBN: 9780521002523 - The Cambridge Illustrated History of Medicine The Cambridge Illustrated History of Medicine
Porter, Roy Roy Porter

ISBN10: 0521002524  ISBN13: 9780521002523
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Edition: New edition
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 30 Jul 2001
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... More

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ISBN: 9780140250282 - Enlightenment Enlightenment
Roy Porter

ISBN10: 014025028X  ISBN13: 9780140250282
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Edition: New edition
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 01 Nov 2001
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... More

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ISBN: 9780140138191 - The Penguin Social History of Britain The Penguin Social History of Britain
Roy Porter

ISBN10: 0140138196  ISBN13: 9780140138191
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Edition: 2nd Revised edition
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 26 Apr 1990
A portrait of 18th century England, from its princes to its paupers, from its metropolis to its smallest hamlet. It covers topics that include - diet, housing, prisons, rural festivals, bordellos, plays, paintings, and work and wages. More

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ISBN: 9780140167351 - Flesh in the Age of Reason Flesh in the Age of Reason
Roy Porter

ISBN10: 0140167358  ISBN13: 9780140167351
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Edition: New edition
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 27 Jan 2005
The culmination of a lifelong interest in the metaphysics of the body by the premier social historian of medicine. How did we come to a modern understanding of our bodies and souls? What were the breakthroughs that allowed human beings to see... More

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ISBN: 9780140105933 - London London
Roy Porter

ISBN10: 014010593X  ISBN13: 9780140105933
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Edition: New edition
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 05 Oct 2000
Looking at urban history, this work balances statistics with the words of historians, diarists and novelists, poets and churchmen such as: Pepys, Boswell, Fielding, Walpole, Blake, Mayhew, Wells, Woolf, and Spark. It is a celebration of the city... More

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ISBN: 9780521682893 - The Cambridge History of Medicine The Cambridge History of Medicine
Roy Porter

ISBN10: 0521682894  ISBN13: 9780521682893
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 05 Jun 2006
Surveys the rise of medicine in the West from classical times to the present. 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... More

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ISBN: 9781861891655 - Bodies Politic Bodies Politic
Roy Porter

ISBN10: 1861891652  ISBN13: 9781861891655
Publisher: Reaktion Books
Edition: new ed
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 28 Mar 2003
Takes a critical look at representations of the body in death, disease and health, and at images of the healing arts in Britain from the mid-seventeenth to the twentieth century. In a historical tour de force, Roy Porter takes a critical look at... More