Roy Porter
1946
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2002
country of citizenship: United Kingdom
languages spoken, written or signed: English
educated at: Christ's College
occupation: medical historian, historian, university teacher, writer
award received: Wolfson History Prize, Fellow of the British Academy
student of: John H. Plumb
Roy Sydney Porter, FBA (31 December 1946 – 3 March 2002) was a British historian known for his work on the history of medicine. He retired in 2001 from the director of the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine at University College London (UCL). Source: Wikipedia (en)
Works 34
Disease, Medicine and Society in England, 1550-1860
Romanticism in national context
London : a social history
The Cambridge history of science
Madness
Flesh in the Age of Reason
Politiquement fou : James Tilly Matthews
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A social history of madness : stories of the insane
Gibbon
Companion Encyclopedia of the History of Medicine
Discovering the History of Psychiatry
The Biographical Dictionary of Scientists
The greatest benefit to mankind : a medical history of humanity
A History of Clinical Psychiatry
Myths of the English
Toleration in Enlightenment Europe
Blood and Guts: A Short History of Medicine
The Facts of Life : The Creation of Sexual Knowledge in Britain, 1650-1950
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Consumption and the world of goods
Gout
The Hospital in history
The Cambridge illustrated history of medicine
Dictionary of the History of Science
The Industrial Revolution in National Context
Oxford dictionary of scientific quotations
Fin de Siècle and its Legacy
The Anatomy of Madness
Patients and Practitioners
The Greatest Benefit to Mankind
The Enlightenment
Nature and Society in Historical Context
Sexual Underworlds of the Enlightenment
Articles
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