Medicine, Madness and Social History
Title | Medicine, Madness and Social History PDF eBook |
Author | R. Bivins |
Publisher | Palgrave Macmillan |
Pages | 295 |
Release | 2007-06-15 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 9781349357673 |
Written in honour of eminent historian Roy Porter by twenty of his colleagues and students, the collection renders cutting edge scholarship accessible. Historians from the three fields that Porter made his own - the histories of medicine, madness, and the Enlightenment - illustrate his influence while tackling major themes ranging from disability rights to the popularization of science. In their accounts, artisan gardeners jostle with anarchists, dentists, and hypnotists in a lively, and very Porterian, parade.
Medicine, Madness and Social History
Title | Medicine, Madness and Social History PDF eBook |
Author | R. Bivins |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 302 |
Release | 2007-06-15 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 0230235352 |
Written in honour of eminent historian Roy Porter by twenty of his colleagues and students, the collection renders cutting edge scholarship accessible. Historians from the three fields that Porter made his own - the histories of medicine, madness, and the Enlightenment - illustrate his influence while tackling major themes ranging from disability rights to the popularization of science. In their accounts, artisan gardeners jostle with anarchists, dentists, and hypnotists in a lively, and very Porterian, parade.
Madness
Title | Madness PDF eBook |
Author | Roy Porter |
Publisher | OUP Oxford |
Pages | 256 |
Release | 2003-03-13 |
Genre | Medical |
ISBN | 0191622281 |
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 'madness', covering an enormous range of topics from witches to creative geniuses, electric shock therapy to sexual deviancy, psychoanalysis to prozac. The origins of current debates about how we define and deal with insanity are examined through eyewitness accounts of those treating patients, writers, artists, and the mad themselves.
Medicine, Madness and Social History
Title | Medicine, Madness and Social History PDF eBook |
Author | Roy Porter |
Publisher | Palgrave MacMillan |
Pages | 320 |
Release | 2007-06-15 |
Genre | History |
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Honoring and extending the work of historian Roy Porter, this volume offers lively, accessible and often topical chapters presenting orginal research on the social history of medicine, madness and the Enlightenment.
Greatest Benefit To Mankind
Title | Greatest Benefit To Mankind PDF eBook |
Author | Roy Porter |
Publisher | W. W. Norton & Company |
Pages | 874 |
Release | 1999-10-17 |
Genre | Family & Relationships |
ISBN | 0393319806 |
A new comprehensive book on the history of medicine.
The Anatomy of Madness
Title | The Anatomy of Madness PDF eBook |
Author | William F. Bynum |
Publisher | Taylor & Francis |
Pages | 314 |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | Psychiatric hospitals |
ISBN | 9780415323840 |
A Social History of Madness
Title | A Social History of Madness PDF eBook |
Author | Roy Porter |
Publisher | Grove Press |
Pages | 261 |
Release | 1988 |
Genre | Mental illness |
ISBN | 9781555841850 |
Shares the insights and observations of kings, poets, artists, and writers considered clinically insane