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  • The Earth Sciences
    Roy Porter
    Originally published in 1983, The Earth Sciences: An Annotated Bibliography is a compact and thematically organized guide that provides comprehensive access to themes and areas of study in the earth sciences. The bibliography is not exhaustive but provides a detailed and critical index to the most important literature in the field. The book’s core focus is geology and examines ...
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    66,56 €

  • Medical Fringe and Medical Orthodoxy 1750-1850
    Roy Porter / 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 thei...
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    66,32 €

  • Medical Fringe and Medical Orthodoxy 1750-1850
    Roy Porter / 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. The essays collected in this volume all present new research on this fascinating and diverse period in the history of medicine....
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    240,82 €

  • The Cambridge History of Science
    Roy Porter
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    62,59 €

  • Doctor of Society
    Roy Porter
    First published in 1992, this book explores how we come to hold our present attitudes towards health, sickness and the medical profession. Roy Porter argues that the outlook of the age of Enlightenment was crucially important in the creation of modern thinking about disease, doctors and society. To illustrate this viewpoint, he focuses on Thomas Beddoes, a prominent doctor of t...
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    268,02 €

  • The History of Bethlem
    Asa Briggs / Jonathan Andrews / Roy Porter
    The History of Bethlem is a scholarly history of this key establishment, looking at Bethlem’s role within the caring institutions in the context of the history of Britain, London, hospitals and psychiatry. ...
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    107,30 €

  • George Cheyne
    Roy Porter
    Though an important figure, Cheyne has been little studied. No scholarly reprint exists of his major thematic work, The English Malady. This edition, originally published in 1991 as part of the Tavistock Classics in the History of Psychiatry series, prefaced by a substantial introduction by Roy Porter, aims to contextualize the work in respect of eighteenth-century medicine, cu...
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    327,87 €

  • The Popularization of Medicine
    Roy Porter
    Explores the rise of popularized medical writings which gave simple advice for home treatments, charting the rise from the Victorian age and focusing on the different experiences of Britain, the Continent and North America. ...
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    104,07 €

  • The Ultimate Theory of Everything
    Roy R. Jr. Porter / Roy RJrPorter
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    14,44 €

  • The Ultimate Theory of Everything
    Roy R Jr. Porter / Roy R JrPorter
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    24,78 €

  • The Making of Geology
    Roy Porter
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    62,74 €

  • The Cambridge History of Medicine
    Roy Porter
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    43,85 €

  • The Cambridge History of Medicine
    Roy Porter
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    140,86 €

  • Flesh in the Age of Reason
    Roy Porter
    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 ...
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    25,25 €

  • Flesh in the Age of Reason
    Roy Porter
    ’As an introduction to early modern thinking and the impact of past ideas on present lives this book can find few equals and no superiors. Porter is a witty humane writer with an extraordinary vocabulary and a sparkling sense of fun. Whether he is quoting from obscure medical texts or analysing scabrous diaries dishing the dirt on long-dead bigwigs or evoking sympathy for hu...
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    28,38 €

  • The Cambridge History of Science
    Roy Porter
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    212,47 €

  • The Enlightenment, Second Edition
    Roy Porter
    The 18th-century Enlightenment was one of the most exciting and significant currents of European culture. Battling against tyranny, ignorance, and superstition, it formulated the ideals of thought, religion, and expression, the value of science, and the pursuit of progress. Enlightenment thinkers undermined the ...
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    49,21 €

  • Witchcraft and Magic in Europe, Volume 5
    Brian Levack / Marijke Gijswijt-Hofstra / Roy Porter
    This volume brings together new research into the place of witchcraft and magic in Greek and Roman culture and society. Topics covered include the practice of sorcery, the portrayal of witches and sorcerers in classical literature, and legal and philosophical attitudes to magic ...
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    155,16 €

  • Witchcraft and Magic in Europe, Volume 5
    Brian Levack / Marijke Gijswijt-Hofstra / Roy Porter
    The end of the eighteenth century saw the end of the witch trials everywhere. This volume charts the processes and reasons for the decriminalisation of witchcraft but also challenges the widespread assumption that Europe has been ’disenchanted’. For the first time surveys are given of the social role of witchcraft in European communities down to the end of the nineteenth centur...
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    317,11 €

  • The History of Bethlem
    Asa Briggs / Jonathan Andrews / Roy Porter
    The History of Bethlem is a scholarly history of this key establishment, looking at Bethlem’s role within the caring institutions in the context of the history of Britain, London, hospitals and psychiatry. ...
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    563,15 €

  • Drugs and Narcotics in History
    Porter / Porter Roy / Teich Mikulas
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    63,01 €

  • Rewriting the Self
    Roy Porter
    A lively and controversial exploration of ideas of the self in the western cultural tradition from the Renaissance to the present. Highly esteemed contributors analyse differing models of personal identity from a variety of perspectives. ...
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    77,08 €

  • Rewriting the Self
    Roy Porter
    A lively and controversial exploration of ideas of the self in the western cultural tradition from the Renaissance to the present. Highly esteemed contributors analyse differing models of personal identity from a variety of perspectives. ...
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    301,62 €

  • European Imperialism, 1860-1914
    Andrew Porter / Roy Porter
    THIS CONCISE AND PENETRATING STUDY SURVEYS THE GROWTH OF EUROPEAN INTERVENTION IN AREAS OUTSIDE EUROPE BETWEEN 1860 AND 1914. ITS SUBJECT IS ’IMPERIALISM’ AS A PROCESS OF INCREASING CONTACT, INFLUENCE, AND CONTROL, RATHER THAN DISCUSSION OF EXISTING EMPIRES OR THE NATURE AND CONSWQUENCES OF COLONIAL RULE. ...
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    55,62 €

  • There And Back
    Roy Porter
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    141,29 €

  • Disease, Medicine and Society in England, 1550 1860
    Roy Porter
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    51,26 €

  • Enlightenment in the National Context
    Roy S. Porter / Roy SPorter
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    38,23 €