Psychiatry and psychology, including psychoanalysis, have exercised enormous cultural and scientific influence in our century, and an important part of the growth of these fields has been their attempt to construct accounts of their own disciplinary pasts. Yet these accounts, which form the collective memory of the psychiatric profession, have varied greatly. In fact, the history of psychiatry has emerged as one of the most rapidly-growing and controversy-ridden areas of commentary in recent years. This book brings together twenty studies by a cast of eminent authors--physicians, social...
Psychiatry and psychology, including psychoanalysis, have exercised enormous cultural and scientific influence in our century, and an important part o...
Gout has fascinated medical writers and cultural commentators from the time of ancient Greece. Historically seen as a disease afflicting upper-class males of superior wit, genius, and creativity, it has included among its sufferers Erasmus, the Medici, Edward Gibbon, Samuel Johnson, Immanuel Kant, and Robert Browning. Gout has also been the subject of powerful medical folklore, viewed as a disease that protects its sufferers and assures long life. This dazzlingly insightful and readable book investigates the history of gout and through it offers a new perspective on medical and social...
Gout has fascinated medical writers and cultural commentators from the time of ancient Greece. Historically seen as a disease afflicting upper-class m...
Hailed as "a remarkable achievement" (Boston Sunday Globe) and as "a triumph: simultaneously entertaining and instructive, witty and thought-provoking . . . a splendid and thoroughly engrossing book" (Los Angeles Times), Roy Porter's charting of the history of medicine affords us an opportunity as never before to assess its culture and science and its costs and benefits to mankind. Porter explores medicine's evolution against the backdrop of the wider religious, scientific, philosophical, and political beliefs of the culture in which it develops, covering ground from the diseases of the...
Hailed as "a remarkable achievement" (Boston Sunday Globe) and as "a triumph: simultaneously entertaining and instructive, witty and thought-provoking...
From a critically acclaimed author comes an engagingly written and groundbreaking new work that highlights the long-underestimated British role in delivering the Enlightenment to the modern world. of color illustrations.
From a critically acclaimed author comes an engagingly written and groundbreaking new work that highlights the long-underestimated British role in del...
An eminently readable, entertaining romp through the history of our vain and valiant efforts to heal ourselves. Mankind's battle to stay alive and healthy for as long as possible is our oldest, most universal struggle. With his characteristic wit and vastly informed historical scope, Roy Porter examines the war fought between disease and doctors on the battleground of the flesh from ancient times to the present. He explores the many ingenious ways in which we have attempted to overcome disease through the ages: the changing role of doctors, from ancient healers, apothecaries, and...
An eminently readable, entertaining romp through the history of our vain and valiant efforts to heal ourselves. Mankind's battle to stay alive and ...
In this "readable and humane book" (Los Angeles Times Book Review), the late historian Roy Porter traces the course of man's philosophical journey from the superstitious, spiritually obsessed Dark Ages to our modern perspective, based on reason and grounded in the body. He demonstrates how the explosion of rational thought and scientific innovation during the Enlightenment began to change our understanding of the flesh and its relation to the soul. No longer simply a "mortal coil," the body eventually became the location, and source, of our conscious selves. Porter examines this...
In this "readable and humane book" (Los Angeles Times Book Review), the late historian Roy Porter traces the course of man's philosophical...
The editors called upon the expertise of an international team of contributors to survey all aspects of the history of medicine. That expertise is reflected in the broad range of topics covered, including non-orthodox and non-western forms of medicine.
The editors called upon the expertise of an international team of contributors to survey all aspects of the history of medicine. That expertise is ref...
In early modern centuries disease was rampant, and it was no surprise that popularized medical writings appeared, aiming to explain how ordinary people could take care of their own health. Often written by doctors, these writings gave advice for home treatments, and warned of the dangers of magic, quackery, old wives' tales and faith healing. "The Popularization of Medicine" explores the rise of this form of people's medicine, from the early days of printing to the Victorian age, focusing upon the different experiences of Britain and France, more marginal countries like Spain and Hungary,...
In early modern centuries disease was rampant, and it was no surprise that popularized medical writings appeared, aiming to explain how ordinary peopl...
The study of a past society in terms of what it consumed rather than what it produced is a recent development. Under the direction of John Brewer, the Center for 17th and 18th Century Studies and the Clark Library at UCLA have created an international programme which analyses the material culture of the 17th and 18th centuries. Focusing on Britain and English-speaking North America but also examining continental Europe, the programme uses, among others, the techniques and methods of social, economic and cultural history, archaeology, sociology, anthropology, and art history.
The study of a past society in terms of what it consumed rather than what it produced is a recent development. Under the direction of John Brewer, the...
