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Roy Porter (1) [1946–2002]

This page covers the author of The Greatest Benefit to Mankind: A Medical History of Humanity from Antiquity to the Present.

For other authors named Roy Porter, see the disambiguation page.

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The Greatest Benefit to Mankind: A Medical History of Humanity from… 722 copies, 6 reviews
English Society in the Eighteenth Century 516 copies, 1 review
Enlightenment: Britain and the Creation of the Modern World 469 copies, 5 reviews
Flesh in the Age of Reason: The Modern Foundations of Body and Soul 417 copies, 3 reviews
London: A Social History 408 copies, 6 reviews
Madness: A Brief History 348 copies, 6 reviews
Blood and Guts: A Short History of Medicine 342 copies, 7 reviews
A Social History of Madness: The World Through the Eyes of the Insane 132 copies, 1 review
England in the Eighteenth Century 118 copies
The Enlightenment (Studies in European History) 110 copies
The Cambridge Illustrated History of Medicine 97 copies, 1 review
Madmen: A Social History of Madhouses, Mad Doctors & Lunatics 90 copies, 1 review
The Faber Book of Madness 86 copies
Quacks: Fakers & Charlatans in English Medicine 69 copies, 1 review
Gibbon: Making History 62 copies, 1 review
The Cambridge History of Science, Volume 4: Eighteenth-Century Science (Editor) 57 copies
Bodies Politic: Disease, Death, and Doctors in Britain, 1650-1900 55 copies
Medicine: A History of Healing : Ancient Traditions to Modern Practices 53 copies, 1 review
Gout: The Patrician Malady 39 copies
Consumption and the world of goods (Editor) 39 copies
The Biographical Dictionary of Scientists 35 copies, 1 review
The Cambridge History of Medicine (Editor; Contributor) 33 copies
Disease, Medicine and Society in England, 1550-1860 32 copies
The Facts of Life: The Creation of Sexual Knowledge in Britain, 1650-1950 31 copies
Rewriting the Self: Histories from the Renaissance to the Present (Editor) 29 copies
The Hutchinson Dictionary of Scientific Biography (Helicon Science) 23 copies
The Renaissance in National Context (Editor) 17 copies, 1 review
Drugs and Narcotics in History 16 copies
Man Masters Nature: Twenty-Five Centuries of Science 15 copies
Myths of the English 15 copies
The Age of Anxiety (Editor) 14 copies, 1 review
Sexual Underworlds of the Enlightenment (Editor) 14 copies
The Scientific Revolution in National Context 14 copies
Revolution in History 13 copies
Patients and Practitioners: Lay Perceptions of Medicine in Pre-industrial… (Editor) 10 copies
The Social History of Language (Editor) 10 copies
Sexual Knowledge, Sexual Science 10 copies
The confinement of the insane : international perspectives, 1800-1965 9 copies, 1 review
Languages and Jargons: Contributions to a Social History of Language 9 copies, 2 reviews
The Ferment of Knowledge: Studies in the Historiography of… (Editor) 8 copies
The making of geology : earth science in Britain, 1660-1815 8 copies
The popularization of medicine, 1650-1850 7 copies
Inventing Human Science: Eighteenth-Century Domains (Editor) 7 copies
Pleasure in the eighteenth century 7 copies
Romanticism in National Context (Editor) 5 copies
In Sickness and In Health: The British Experience 1650-1850 5 copies
Problems and methods in the history of medicine 4 copies
Doctor of Society: Thomas Beddoes and the Sick Trade in Late Enlightenment… 4 copies
Religion, health, and suffering 4 copies
George Cheyne : the English malady (1733) 3 copies
The Anatomy of Madness 3 copies
The Dialectics of Friendship 3 copies
Medicine In The Enlightenment.(Clio Medica/The Wellcome Institute Series… 3 copies
The Anatomy of Madness - Essays in the History of Psychiatry - Volume III… 2 copies
Vér és virtus az orvostudomány rövid… 2 copies
Earth Generated and Anatomized: An Early Eighteenth Century Theory of the… 2 copies
Uncensored France: An Eyewitness Account of France Under the German… 2 copies
The History of Medical Education in Britain (Clio Medica/The Wellcome… 2 copies
Reading is Bad for Your Health 2 copies
Science and profit in 18th-century London 1 copy
Forbidden Pleasures: Enlightenment Literature of Sexual Advice 1 copy
History of science, Volume 11, Parts 1-4, Number 11-14: March 1973. 1 copy
Dizionario biografico della storia della medicina e delle scienze naturali… 1 copy
The Medical History of Water and Spas 1 copy
The Eighteenth Century 1 copy
'Tissue Wars' in LRB 22/5,2 March 2000 [review of Hooper's 'The River: a… 1 copy
Dizionario biografico della storia della medicina e delle scienze naturali… 1 copy
the journal of historical sociology september 1991 volume 4 number 3 1 copy
Dizionario biografico della storia della medicina e delle scienze naturali… 1 copy
Dizionario biografico della storia della medicina e delle scienze naturali… 1 copy
Breve historia de la medicina.: De la Antigüedad a nuestros días… 1 copy
Dizionario di storia della scienza 1 copy
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A history of London (Foreword, some editions) 309 copies, 4 reviews
The Norton History of Chemistry (Series editor) 129 copies
The Timechart History of Medicine (Introduction) 16 copies
The Alice Companion: A Guide to Lewis Carroll's Alice Books (Foreword, some editions) 14 copies, 1 review
Medicine, Mortality and the Book Trade (Contributor) 8 copies
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Canonical name
Porter, Roy
Legal name
Porter, Roy Sydney
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Date of birth
1946-12-31
Date of death
2002-03-03
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Gender
male
Nationality
UK
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Birthplace
London, England, UK
Place of death
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Places of residence
London, England, UK
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, UK
Education
University of Cambridge (Christ's College)
Wilson's Grammar School, Camberwell
Occupations
historian
Relationships
Organizations
University of Cambridge (Churchill College)
Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, University College London
Awards and honors
Fellow, British Academy (1994)
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