Roy Porter, weltweit einer der renommiertesten Medizinhistoriker, war Professor für Sozialgeschichte der Medizin am Wellcome Institute in London und ist der Verfasser zahlreicher Bücher zu medizin- und sozialgeschichtlichen Themen. Er starb am 3. März 2002.
Bereits erschienen: Geschröpft und zur Ader gelassen. Eine kurze Kulturgeschichte der Medizin (2004) und Wahnsinn. Eine kurze Kulturgeschichte (2005).
64 Ebooks von Roy Porter
William F. Bynum & Janet Browne: Dictionary of the History of Science
For readers interested in the development of major scientific concepts and the role of science in the western world, here is the first conceptually organized historical dictionary of scientific thoug …
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€119.99
Roy Porter: Geschröpft und zur Ader gelassen
Geschröpft und zur Ader gelassen erkundet die vielfältige, oftmals seltsame und manchmal schauerliche Art und Weise, in der die Menschen über die Jahrhunderte hinweg versucht haben, Krankheiten zu …
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€12.99
Roy Porter: Greatest Benefit to Mankind
This edition does not include illustrations.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 …
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€17.49
Roy Porter: Madness
This fascinating story of madness reveals the radically different perceptions of madness and approaches to its treatment, from antiquity to the present day. Roy Porter explores what we really mean by …
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€13.39
Colin Jones & Roy Porter: Reassessing Foucault
Though Foucault is now widely taught in universities, his writings are notoriously difficult. Reassessing Foucault critically examines the implications of his work for students and researchers in a …
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€27.66
Roy Porter: Rewriting the Self
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, …
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€27.33
William F. Bynum & Stephen Lock: Medical Journals and Medical Knowledge
Originally published in 1992 Medical Journals and Medical Knowledge examines both broad developments in print and media and the practice of particular journals such as the British Medical Journal. Th …
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€41.51
William F. Bynum & Stephen Lock: Medical Journals and Medical Knowledge
Originally published in 1992 Medical Journals and Medical Knowledge examines both broad developments in print and media and the practice of particular journals such as the British Medical Journal. Th …
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€41.10
Roy Porter & Andrew Wear: Problems and Methods in the History of Medicine
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 …
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€37.56
Roy Porter & Andrew Wear: Problems and Methods in the History of Medicine
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 …
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€37.56
W. F. Bynum & Roy Porter: Medical Fringe and Medical Orthodoxy 1750-1850
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 …
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€37.44
W. F. Bynum & Roy Porter: Medical Fringe and Medical Orthodoxy 1750-1850
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 …
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€37.56
Roy Porter: George Cheyne: The English Malady (1733) (Psychology Revivals)
‘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 ailme …
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€46.01
Roy Porter: George Cheyne: The English Malady (1733) (Psychology Revivals)
‘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 ailme …
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€46.07
John Haslam: Illustrations of Madness (Psychology Revivals)
John Haslam’s Illustrations of Madness, written in 1810, occupies a special place in psychiatric history, it was the first book-length account of one single psychiatric case written by a British psyc …
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€44.82
John Haslam: Illustrations of Madness (Psychology Revivals)
John Haslam’s Illustrations of Madness, written in 1810, occupies a special place in psychiatric history, it was the first book-length account of one single psychiatric case written by a British psyc …
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€45.24
Colin Jones & Roy Porter: Reassessing Foucault
Though Foucault is now widely taught in universities, his writings are notoriously difficult.
Reassessing Foucault critically examines the implications of his work for students and researchers in a …
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€47.25
Colin Jones & Roy Porter: Reassessing Foucault
Though Foucault is now widely taught in universities, his writings are notoriously difficult.
Reassessing Foucault critically examines the implications of his work for students and researchers in a …
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€47.26
Roy Porter: Rewriting the Self
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, …
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€47.69
Roy Porter: Rewriting the Self
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, …
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€47.73
Roy Porter: The Popularization of Medicine
In the early modern centuries a body of popularized medical writings appeared, telling ordinary people how they could best take care of their own health. Often written be doctors, such books gave …
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€67.97
Roy Porter: The Popularization of Medicine
In the early modern centuries a body of popularized medical writings appeared, telling ordinary people how they could best take care of their own health. Often written be doctors, such books gave …
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€67.97
Jonathan Andrews & Asa Briggs: The History of Bethlem
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 …
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€62.40
Jonathan Andrews & Asa Briggs: The History of Bethlem
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 …
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€62.20
W. F. Bynum & Roy (Deceased, literary executor and royalty recipient is Natsu Hattori, his wife.) Porter: Companion Encyclopedia of the History of Medicine
This is a comprehensive reference work which surveys all aspects of the history of medicine, both clinical and social, and reflects the complementary approaches to the discipline. The editors have as …
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€690.81
W. F. Bynum & Roy (Deceased, literary executor and royalty recipient is Natsu Hattori, his wife.) Porter: Companion Encyclopedia of the History of Medicine
This is a comprehensive reference work which surveys all aspects of the history of medicine, both clinical and social, and reflects the complementary approaches to the discipline. The editors have as …
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€690.89
John Brewer & Roy Porter: Consumption and the World of Goods
The study of past society in terms of what it consumes rather than what it produces is – relatively speaking – a new development. The focus on consumption changes the whole emphasis and structure of …
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€121.83
John Brewer & Roy Porter: Consumption and the World of Goods
The study of past society in terms of what it consumes rather than what it produces is – relatively speaking – a new development. The focus on consumption changes the whole emphasis and structure of …
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€121.98
W F Bynum & Roy (Deceased, literary executor and royalty recipient is Natsu Hattori, his wife.) Porter: Anatomy Of Madness Vol 1
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 …
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€34.94
W F Bynum & Roy (Deceased, literary executor and royalty recipient is Natsu Hattori, his wife.) Porter: Anatomy Of Madness Vol 1
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 …
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€34.64
W F Bynum & Roy (Deceased, literary executor and royalty recipient is Natsu Hattori, his wife.) Porter: Anatomy Of Madness Vol 2
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 …
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€34.92
W F Bynum & Roy (Deceased, literary executor and royalty recipient is Natsu Hattori, his wife.) Porter: Anatomy Of Madness Vol 2
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 …
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€35.14
W F Bynum & Roy (Deceased, literary executor and royalty recipient is Natsu Hattori, his wife.) Porter: Anatomy Of Madness Vol 3
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, …
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€35.24
W F Bynum & Roy (Deceased, literary executor and royalty recipient is Natsu Hattori, his wife.) Porter: Anatomy Of Madness Vol 3
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, …
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€35.21
Roy Porter: Doctor of Society
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 Enlightenme …
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€46.07
Roy Porter: Doctor of Society
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 Enlightenme …
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€46.15
Thomas Trotter: An Essay, Medical, Philosophical, and Chemical on Drunkenness and its Effects on the Human Body (Psychology Revivals)
It was during the course of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries that the problem of chronic alcohol dependence in modern society and its consequent medical effects emerged. The topic of drunkenne …
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€46.48
Thomas Trotter: An Essay, Medical, Philosophical, and Chemical on Drunkenness and its Effects on the Human Body (Psychology Revivals)
It was during the course of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries that the problem of chronic alcohol dependence in modern society and its consequent medical effects emerged. The topic of drunkenne …
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€46.51
Fulbrook Mary Fulbrook: Interpretations of the Two Germanies, 1945-1990
The two Germanies, arising from the unpromising ashes of defeated Nazi Germany, came to represent opposing models of state and society. The Federal Republic established itself as a remarkably stable …
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€33.97
Roy Porter: Flesh in the Age of Reason
‚As an introduction to early modern thinking and the impact of past ideas on present lives, this book can find few equals and no superiors. Porter is a witty, humane writer with an extraordinary …
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€14.99
Roy Porter: The Penguin Social History of Britain
A portrait of 18th century England, from its princes to its paupers, from its metropolis to its smallest hamlet. The topics covered include – diet, housing, prisons, rural festivals, bordellos, …
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€10.99
Roy Porter: Enlightenment
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. Porter certainly acknowledges France’s importance, …
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€12.99
Roy Porter: Blood and Guts
Mankind“s battle to stay alive is the greatest of all subjects. This brief, witty and unusual book by Britain“s greatest medical historian compresses into a tiny span a lifetime spent thinking …
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€9.49
Roy Porter: London
“Roy Porter, a historian of formidable range, turns to urban history in this marvellously lucid, informative and passionate book… Porter“s facts are always at the service of the narrative, which …
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€11.99
Roy Porter: Bodies Politic
Bodies Politic takes a critical look at representations of the body in death, disease, and health, as well as at images of the healing arts in Britain from the mid-seventeenth to the twentieth …
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€21.30
Roy Porter: Earth Sciences
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 …
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€37.69
Roy Porter: Earth Sciences
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 …
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€37.44
Porter Roy Porter: Enlightenment
The eighteenth-century Enlightenment was one of the most exciting and significant currents of European culture. Battling against tyranny, ignorance and superstition, it formulated the ideals which …
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€31.69
Roy Porter: The Greatest Benefit to Mankind: A Medical History of Humanity (The Norton History of Science)
Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize ‚A panoramic and perfectly magnificent intellectual history of medicine…This is the book that delivers it all.‘ —Sherwin Nuland, author of How We Die
Hail …
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€27.99
Roy Porter: Blood and Guts: A Short History of Medicine
‚Ideas tumble out of Porter like wonders from some scholarly horn of plenty.‘ —Sherwin B. Nuland, The New Republic
An eminently readable, entertaining romp through the history of our vain and valia …
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€15.99
Roy Porter: Algorithm Party
Algorithm Party is a debut publication in which an utterly original, fully-formed literary voice announces itself, somehow full of life, on the page. Liverpool's spoken-word performer Roy’s …
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€4.79
Roy Porter & Sylvana Tomaselli: The Dialectics of Friendship
First published in 1989, The Dialectics of Friendship explores the ideals and paradoxes of friendship against the backdrop of other relationships.
The book begins with an introduction to the subjec …
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€36.50
Roy Porter & Sylvana Tomaselli: The Dialectics of Friendship
First published in 1989, The Dialectics of Friendship explores the ideals and paradoxes of friendship against the backdrop of other relationships.
The book begins with an introduction to the subjec …
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€36.41
Sylvia M Barnard: To Prove I’m Not Forgot
With the growth of English cities during the Industrial Revolution came a booming population too vast for churchyards. Beckett Street Cemetery in Leeds was to become the first municipal cemetery in …
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€13.99
Roy Porter & Marie Mulvey Roberts: Literature & Medicine During the Eighteenth Century
First published in 1993, Literature & Medicine During the Eighteenth Century analyses the close interplay of medicine and literature by paying special attention to questions of body language and the …
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€62.79
Roy Porter & Marie Mulvey Roberts: Literature & Medicine During the Eighteenth Century
First published in 1993, Literature & Medicine During the Eighteenth Century analyses the close interplay of medicine and literature by paying special attention to questions of body language and the …
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€62.10
John R. Hinnells & Roy Porter: Religion, Health and Suffering
First Published in 1999. The interaction between religion and medicine is universal throughout recorded history. They meet at the great turning points of life: at birth, at moments of acute suffering …
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€55.25
John R. Hinnells & Roy Porter: Religion, Health and Suffering
First Published in 1999. The interaction between religion and medicine is universal throughout recorded history. They meet at the great turning points of life: at birth, at moments of acute suffering …
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€55.25
Arthur L. Caplan & James J. McCartney: Health, Disease, and Illness
In the 1850s, "Drapetomania" was the medical term for a disease found among black slaves in the United States. The main symptom was a strange desire to run away from their masters. In …
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€45.26
Roy Porter & Robert Wokler: Inventing Human Science
The human sciences—including psychology, anthropology, and social theory—are widely held to have been born during the eighteenth century. This first full-length, English-language study of the …
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€54.99
Marijke Gijswijt-Hofstra & Brian Levack: Witchcraft and Magic in Europe, Volume 5
The end of the eighteenth century saw the end of the witch trials everywhere. This volume charts the processes and reasons for the decriminalisation of witchcraft but also challenges the widespread …
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€101.78
Fulbrook Mary Fulbrook: Interpretations of the Two Germanies, 1945-1990
The two Germanies, arising from the unpromising ashes of defeated Nazi Germany, came to represent opposing models of state and society. The Federal Republic established itself as a remarkably stable …
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€33.54
Helen King & Roy Porter: Hysteria Beyond Freud
‚She’s hysterical.‘ For centuries, the term ‚hysteria‘ has been used by physicians and laymen to diagnose and dismiss the extreme emotionality and mysterious physical disorders presumed to bedevil …
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€59.99
