Medicine, Madness and Social History Essays in Honour of Roy Porter
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
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Edited by
Roberta Bivins and John V. Pickstone
Medicine, Madness and Social History
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Medicine, Madness and Social History Essays in Honour of Roy Porter Edited by
Roberta Bivins and
John V. Pickstone
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To Roy Porter ‘for he wrote books de omni scribili …’
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Contents
List of Figures and Plates
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Acknowledgements
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Introduction: ‘De Omni Scribili’ John V. Pickstone and Roberta Bivins 1
Roy Porter and the Persons of History Harold J. Cook
Part I
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The Science of History and the Politics of Science
2
Porter versus Foucault on the ‘Birth of the Clinic’ Adrian Wilson
3
The ‘New History’ of the Enlightenment: An Essay in the Social History of Social History Peter Burke
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The Politics of Particularism: Medicalization and Medical Reform in Nineteenth-century Britain I
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