Roy Porter, Author . Norton $21.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-393-03762-3
Some histories are simply too long for a short treatment, as this engaging but cursory volume demonstrates. Each chapter takes on various subtopics in the history of Western medicine: disease, doctors, the body, the laboratory, therapies, surgery,...
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Roy Porter, Author Tempus Publishing, Limited $27.5 (383p) ISBN 978-0-7524-2590-0
The late Porter, whose Cambridge Illustrated History of Medicine and The Greatest Benefit to Mankind were wide-ranging collections of medical practices through the ages, turned his attention to the fringes of the field in this illuminating book....
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Roy Porter, Author Grove/Atlantic $18.95 (261p) ISBN 978-1-55584-185-0
The words of the insane are often dismissed as incoherent. Yet many men and women who are labeled mad or schizophrenic reveal startling insight into their own condition while condemning the callousness of a society that shuns them. Stories are...
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Roy Porter, Author Plume Books $8.95 (272p) ISBN 978-0-525-48514-8
Many men and women who are labeled mad or schizophrenic reveal startling insight into their own condition while condemning the callousness of a society that shuns them. Here, in relating the stories of some two dozen people who endured severe mental
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Roy Porter, Author W. W. Norton & Company $35 (800p) ISBN 978-0-393-04634-2
Porter's magisterial chronicle of medical thinking and practice deserves the popularity of his bestselling London: A Social History. Neither demonizing nor glorifying modern high-tech medicine, his epic history underscores the enormous progress...
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Roy Porter, Author, David Keller, Author Louisiana State University Press $26.95 (196p) ISBN 978-0-8071-1689-0
Jazz drummer and composer Porter tells the story of his life, from his childhood in Colorado to his involvement with the jazz and bebop scene on the West Coast in the 1940s and '50s, his imprisonment for drug possession, and the deterioration of his
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Roy Porter, Author, Simon Schama, Foreword by W. W. Norton & Company $29.95 (660p) ISBN 978-0-393-05075-2
The distinguished historian died shortly after completing this sequel to his monumental Enlightenment (2000). Flesh examines""the triangle of the moral, the material and the medical"" in 18th-century Britain. The Reformation's ouster of church dogma
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