Medicine, Madness and Social History Essays in Honour of Roy Porter [Paperback]

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.Note on Contributors/Remembering Roy Porter Introduction: 'De omni scribili'; J.Pickstone & R.Bivins Roy Porter and the Persons of History; H.Cook PART 1: THE SCIENCE OF HISTORY AND THE POLITICS OF SCIENCE Porter vs. Foucault on 'Birth of the clinic'; A.Wilson The New History of the Enlightenment: An essay in the social history of social history; P.Burke The Politics of Particularism: Medicalization and Medical Reform in 19th century Britain; I.Burney Charles Babbage and George Birkbeck: Science, Reform and Radicalism; D.Porter PART 2: BODIES, COMMODITIES AND SOCIAL DIFFERENCE French Dentists and English Teeth in the Long 18th Century; C.Jones Hotbeds and Cool Fruits: The Unnatural Cultivation of the Eighteenth Century Cucumber; A.Secord Arguing disability: ex-servicemen's own stories in early modern England, 1590-1790; G.Hudson Lunacy and Labouring Men: Narratives of Male Vulnerability in Mid-Victorian London; A.Suzuki Arrows of Desire : British Sexual Utopians and the Politics of Health; L.Hall Twenty centuries of Christianity weigh heavily on women's brains : Anarchism, Female Education, and Women's Nature at the turn of the Twentieth Century; K.Rowold A band of lunatics down Camberwell way : Percy Lane Oliver and Voluntary Blood Donation in Interwar Britain; K.Pelis PART 3: MINDS, IDENTITIES AND SOCIAL ORDER Mind, Body and the Insanity Defence in 18th c. Hamburg; M.Lindemann One of the best known identity crises in history ? John Stuart Mill's Mentló.