ISBN:
0230525490
,
9780230525498
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (x, 295 p)
,
ill
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Parallel Title:
Print version Medicine, Madness and Social History : Essays in Honour of Roy Porter
DDC:
306.09
Keywords:
Mental illness Treatment
;
History
;
Social history
;
Social Conditions Festschrift History
;
Mental Disorders Festschrift History
;
History, Modern 1601- Festschrift
;
Psychiatry Festschrift History
Abstract:
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 Enlightenment - illustrate his influence while tackling major themes ranging from disability rights to the popularization of science. In their accounts, artisan gardeners jostle with anarchists, dentists, and hypnotists in a lively, and very Porterian, parade
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Contents; List of Figures and Plates; Acknowledgements; Introduction: 'De Omni Scribili'; 1 Roy Porter and the Persons of History; Part I: The Science of History and the Politics of Science; 2 Porter versus Foucault on the 'Birth of the Clinic'; 3 The 'New History' of the Enlightenment: An Essay in the Social History of Social History; 4 The Politics of Particularism: Medicalization and Medical Reform in Nineteenth-century Britain; 5 Charles Babbage and George Birkbeck: Science, Reform and Radicalism; Part II: Bodies, Commodities and Social Difference
Description / Table of Contents:
6 French Dentists and English Teeth in the Long Eighteenth Century: A Tale of Two Cities and One Dentist7 Hotbeds and Cool Fruits: The Unnatural Cultivation of the Eighteenth-century Cucumber; 8 Arguing Disability: Ex-Servicemen's Own Stories in Early Modern England, 1590-1790; 9 Lunacy and Labouring Men: Narratives of Male Vulnerability in Mid-Victorian London; 10 'Arrows of Desire': British Sexual Utopians and the Politics of Health; 11 'Twenty Centuries of Christianity Weigh Heavily on Women's Brains…': Anarchism, Science and Women's Nature in Spain at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
Description / Table of Contents:
12 'A Band of Lunatics down Camberwell Way': Percy Lane Oliver and Voluntary Blood Donation in Interwar BritainPart III: Minds, Identities and Social Order; 13 Murder, Melancholy and the Insanity Defence in Eighteenth-century Hamburg; 14 'One of the Best-Known Identity Crises in History'? John Stuart Mill's Mental Crisis and its Meanings; 15 Murder by Hypnosis? Altered States and the Mental Geography of Science; 16 Maladies of the Will: Freedom, Fetters and the Fear of Freud; 17 Two Cultures Revisited: The Case of the Fin de Siècle; 18 Roy; Notes on Contributors/Remembering Roy Porter; Notes
Description / Table of Contents:
Index
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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