Roy Porter

A brief but engaging history of medicine covers the field in lively fashion, from ancient Indian healing practices that combined diet and meditation to modern pharmaceuticals such as Viagra. Reprint. 10,000 first printing.

Blood and Guts: A Short History of Medicine

Offers a history of mental illness and its treatment, from holes drilled in five-thousand-year-old skulls to the latest in modern psychotropic drugs.

A Brief History

Madness

Explores the development of medicine against the backdrop of the religious, scientific, philosophical, and political beliefs of each age, and unearths a treasure trove of medicinal oddities

The Greatest Benefit to Mankind: A Medical History of Humanity (The Norton History of Science)

'A brilliant work . . . Porter's picture of eighteenth-century England is boldly drawn . . . He ranges far and wide, from princes and paupers and from metropolis to the smallest hamlet. Stay-making and corsetry, prisons, rural festivals, diet and housing, bordellos and sex therapists . . . paintings and plays, work and wages, balloons and bastardly are only a fraction of the topics covered by this breathtaking narrative . . . No one will fail to learn much from Porter's bustling book' London Review of Books

English Society in the Eighteenth Century

The Penguin Social History of Britain

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'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 has a finely maintained momentum, balancing statistics with the words of historians, diarists and novelists, poets and churchmen: Pepys, Boswell, Fielding, Walpole, Blake, Mayhew, Wells, Woolf, Spark, ... a timely and brilliant book.' CLAIRE TOMALIN, EVENING STANDARD 'A vivid celebration of the city, but also an elegy for its decline, bubbling with statistics and anecdote, from Boadicea to Betjeman.' RICHARD HOLMES, DAILY TELEGRAPH BOOKS OF THE YEAR

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The Untold Story of the British Enlightenment

The Creation of the Modern World

Peter Melville Logan

A Cultural History of Hysteria in 19th-Century British Prose

Nerves and Narratives

Sylvana Tomaselli

The Dialectics of Friendship

Sarah Dunant

This is an incisive and intelligent collection of new writing on the anxieties born from the imminent arrival of the next century, that includes contributions from Susie Orbach, Linda Grant and Oscar Moore.

The Age of Anxiety

Michael Shepherd

William F. Bynum

Essays in the History of Psychiatry

The Anatomy of Madness

Simon Schama

The Modern Foundations of Body and Soul

Flesh in the Age of Reason

The Enlightenment

Set to become the standard work on the history of medicine, this book is also a treasure trove of historical surprises. Roy Porter shows how lemons did as much as Nelson to defeat Napoleon and how African slaves became immune to malaria.

A Medical History of Humanity from Antiquity to the Present

The Greatest Benefit to Mankind

Sander L. Gilman

Elaine Showalter

Sander Lawrence Gilman

Helen King

G. S. Rousseau

"Encyclopedically learned, up-to-date, authoritative, and altogether the best introduction to the subject that exists in any language."--Thomas Laqueur, author of Making Sex

Hysteria Beyond Freud

Colin Jones

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 wide range of areas in the social and human sciences. Focusing on the social history of medicine, successive chapters deal with his historiographical, methodological and philosophical writings, his ideas about prisons, hospitals, madness and disease, and his thinking about the body. The book also suggests ways in which Foucault's influence will continue to dominate cultural history and the social sciences.

Power, Medicine and the Body

Reassessing Foucault

Janet Browne

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 thought. The purpose of the dictionary is to illuminate this history by providing a concise, single volume reference book of short historical accounts of the important themes, ideas, and discoveries of science. Its conceptual approach differentiates the dictionary from previous reference works such as books of scientific biography and makes it a convenient manual both for the general reader and for scientists interested in the origin of concepts in their own and other scientific fields. Originally published in 1982. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Dictionary of the History of Science

Helen Nicholson

Bridget Bennett

Women, Madness, and Spiritualism: Georgina Weldon and Louisa Lowe

W. F. Bynum

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 their practitioners. Anti-establishment radicals might favour natural medicine, Christian Scientists would reject the medical aid, "Physical Puritans" would concentrate on homeopathy, hydropathy and vegetarianism to create health rather than counter disease. Some diseases, particularly venereal ones, allowed practitioners to play unscrupulously on the guilt of their patients. The end of the period saw professionalism establish itself in many areas, for example with the foundation in 1852 of the Pharmaceutical Society, and conflicts of fringe and orthodoxy became the fiercer. The essays collected in this volume all present new research on this fascinating and diverse period in the history of medicine.

Medical Fringe and Medical Orthodoxy 1750-1850

Lea Schullery

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