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  • THE EARTH SCIENCES
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    THE EARTH SCIENCES
    ROY PORTER
    Originally published in 1983, The Earth Sciences: An Annotated Bibliography is a compact and thematically organized guide that provides comprehensive access to themes and areas of study in the earth sciences. The bibliography is not exhaustive but provides a detailed and critical index to the most important literature in the field. The book’s core focus is geology and examines ...

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  • PROBLEMS AND METHODS IN THE HISTORY OF MEDICINE
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    PROBLEMS AND METHODS IN THE HISTORY OF MEDICINE
    ROY PORTER
    Originally published in 1987, Problems and Methods in the History of Medicine is a collection of papers surveying and assessing the particular approaches and techniques which have been used in the history of medicine in the past or are still being developed (from the influence of Annales to the role of the computer). The emphasis is on historical practice rather than methodolog...

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  • MEDICAL FRINGE AND MEDICAL ORTHODOXY 1750-1850
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    MEDICAL FRINGE AND MEDICAL ORTHODOXY 1750-1850
    W. F. BYNUM / ROY PORTER
    First published in 1987. Even as the professionalism of medicine progressed, many sufferers continued to rely on what would now be termed "fringe" practitioners – quacks, backstreet surgeons, bone-setters, Thomsonian botanists, holists and naturalists. Many types of fringe medicine were popular in particular circles or reflected the political or religious preoccupations of thei...

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  • DOCTOR OF SOCIETY
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    DOCTOR OF SOCIETY
    ROY PORTER
    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 t...

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  • GEORGE CHEYNE: THE ENGLISH MALADY (1733) (PSYCHOLOGY REVIVALS)
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    GEORGE CHEYNE: THE ENGLISH MALADY (1733) (PSYCHOLOGY REVIVALS)
    ROY PORTER
    ‘Nerves’ became a highly eligible illness in early Georgian London and Bath. What Freud was for Vienna at the end of the nineteenth-century, George Cheyne was for eighteenth-century fashionable ailments. The English Malady was one of the best known and most influential books of the Georgian age, dealing with what we would now call psychiatric disorders. Such disorders, he conte...

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  • THE HISTORY OF BETHLEM
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    THE HISTORY OF BETHLEM
    JONATHAN ANDREWS / ASA BRIGGS / ROY PORTER / PENNY TUCKER / KEIR WADDINGTON
    Bethlem Hospital, popularly known as "Bedlam", is a unique institution. Now seven hundred and fifty years old, it has been continuously involved in the care of the mentally ill in London since at least the 1400s. As such it has a strong claim to be the oldest foundation in Europe with an unbroken history of sheltering and treating the mentally disturbed. During this time, Bethl...

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  • REWRITING THE SELF
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    REWRITING THE SELF
    ROY PORTER
    Rewriting the Self is an exploration of ideas of the self in the western cultural tradition from the Renaissance to the Present. The contributors analyse differing religious, philosophical, psychological, political, psychoanalytical and literary models of personal identity. They examine these models from a number of viewpoints, including the history of ideas, contemporary gende...

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  • ANATOMY OF MADNESS VOL 1
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    ANATOMY OF MADNESS VOL 1
    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 Histor...

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  • ANATOMY OF MADNESS VOL 2
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    ANATOMY OF MADNESS VOL 2
    W F BYNUM / MICHAEL SHEPHERD / ROY PORTER
    This is a collection of essays on the history of Psychiatry. Volume II of three, offers works around the institutions and society from the eighteenth century to 1917. 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, London, during the a...

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  • ANATOMY OF MADNESS VOL 3
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    ANATOMY OF MADNESS VOL 3
    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. ...

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