Medicine, Madness and Social History
Subtitle: Essays in Honour of Roy Porter
Contributors: Roberta E. Bivins (Editor); John V. Pickstone (Editor)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: September 18, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780230525498
Subjects: History Of Medicine; Neurology & clinical neurophysiology; History Of Science; Medical; Medical / Nursing; Europe - Great Britain - General; History; Medical / History; Social History
Description: "Roy Porter was a brilliant historian of medicine and madness. He was the British authority on the Enlightenment of the eighteenth century, but he wore his learning lightly. He died, far too young, in 2002. This collection of essays was written by twenty of his colleagues and students, not just to honour his memory but to convey and extend the spirit of his work."--BOOK JACKET.