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    The patient's view.Roy Porter - 1985 - Theory and Society 14 (2):175-198.
  2. Flesh in the Age of Reason.Roy Porter - 2005 - Penguin UK.
    '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 human suffering, his grasp is masterly and his erudition appealing. I wish I could read it again for (...)
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  3. Health for Sale. Quackery in England 1660-1850.Roy Porter & Ragnhild Munch - 1994 - History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences 16 (1):155-182.
  4. The Making of Geology: Earth Science in Britain 1660-1815.Roy Porter - 1978 - British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 29 (4):392-393.
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    Inventing Human Science: Eighteenth Century Domains.Christopher Fox, Roy Porter & Robert Wokler (eds.) - 1995 - University of California Press.
    A work of remarkable cross-disciplinary scholarship, this volume illuminates the origins of the human sciences and offers a new view of the Enlightenment that ...
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    Reassessing Foucault: Power, Medicine, and the Body.Colin Jones & Roy Porter - 1994 - Psychology Press.
    This study critically examines the implications of Foucault's work for students and researchers in a wide selection of areas in the social and human sciences.Though Foucault is now widely taught in universities, his writings are notoriously difficult. Reassessing Foucault critically examines the implications of his work for students and researchers in a wide array of areas in the social and human sciences.Focusing on the social history of medicine, successive chapters deal with his historiographical, methodological and philosophical writings, his ideas about (...)
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  7. The Enlightenment in National Context.Roy S. Porter & Mikuláš Teich (eds.) - 1981 - Cambridge University Press.
    The Enlightenment has often been written about as a sequence of disembodied 'great ideas'. The aim of this book is to put the beliefs of the Enlightenment firmly into their social context, by revealing the national soils in which they were rooted and the specific purposes for which they were used. It brings out the regional divergences of the Enlightenment experience, shaped by different local intellectual and economic priorities. At the same time it also shows how central concerns were shared (...)
     
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  8. Companion Encyclopaedia of the History of Medicine.William F. Bynum, Roy Porter & L. S. Jacyna - 1994 - Annals of Science 51 (4):413-415.
     
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  9. Dictionary of the History of Science.W. F. Bynum, E. J. Browne & Roy Porter - 1983 - Journal of the History of Biology 16 (1):178-179.
     
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  10. Rewriting the self: histories from the Renaissance to the present.Roy Porter (ed.) - 1997 - New York: Routledge.
    Rewriting the Self is an exploration of ideas of the self in the western cultural tradition from the Renaissance to the present. The contributors analyze different religious, philosophical, psychological, political, psychoanalytical and literary models of personal identity from a number of viewpoints, including the history of ideas, contemporary gender politics, and post-modernist literary theory. Challenging the received version of the "ascent of western man," they assess the discursive construction of the self in the light of political, technological and social changes. (...)
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    The Ferment of Knowledge: Studies in the Historiography of Eighteenth-Century Science.George Sebastian Rousseau & Roy Porter - 1980 - Cambridge University Press.
    The thirteen original essays in this book examine the status and development of the sciences in the eighteenth century. The last generation has seen a revolution in the methodology adopted by historians of science: The development of science is no longer described as a steady progress towards truth - certainties have given way to questions. The essays in this volume scrutinize these changing perspectives in historiography and recommend paths for future study. The eighteenth century has been a neglected and much-misunderstood (...)
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    Charles Lyell and the Principles of the History of Geology.Roy Porter - 1976 - British Journal for the History of Science 9 (2):91-103.
    History is the science which investigates the successive changes that have taken place in the material and intellectual conditions of man; it inquires into the causes of those changes, and the influence which they have exerted in modifying the life and mind of mankind.
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  13. Inventing Human Science: Eighteenth Century Domains.Christopher Fox, Roy Porter, Robert Wokler & G. W. Stocking Jr - 1997 - Annals of Science 54 (3):313-313.
    The human sciences—including psychology, anthropology, and social theory—are widely held to have been born during the eighteenth century. This first full-length, English-language study of the Enlightenment sciences of humans explores the sources, context, and effects of this major intellectual development. The book argues that the most fundamental inspiration for the Enlightenment was the scientific revolution of the seventeenth century. Natural philosophers from Copernicus to Newton had created a magisterial science of nature based on the realization that the physical world operated (...)
     
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    Images of the Earth: Essays in the History of the Environmental Sciences.L. J. Jordanova & Roy Porter - 1997
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    Foucault's great confinement.Roy Porter - 1990 - History of the Human Sciences 3 (1):47-54.
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    Alexander Catcott: Glory and Geology.Michael Neve & Roy Porter - 1977 - British Journal for the History of Science 10 (1):37-60.
    Central to the development of geology has been the growth of systematic empirical observation as a programme of scientific practice. Fieldwork has focused on many objects—strata, fossils, and landforms—and has issued in a variety of products, such as maps, sections, and monographs on regional geology, particular rock formations and fossils. Early in the nineteenth century, above all, many influential geologists sought to define their science as one exclusively of field observation, description, and the accumulation of data. The rise of fieldwork, (...)
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    Essay Review: Dugald Stewart Reprinted, the Collected Works of Dugald StewartThe Collected Works of Dugald Stewart. Edited by HamiltonWilliamSir, with a new introduction by HaakonssenKnud . £795.00/$1039.35.Roy Porter - 1996 - History of Science 34 (2):241-244.
  18. The Earth Generated and Anatomized.William Hobbs & Roy Porter - 1982 - Journal of the History of Biology 15 (1):157-157.
     
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  19. Essay review-Robert Boyle (1627-91): Scrupulosity and science.Michael Hunter & Roy Porter - 2001 - History of Science 39 (2):215-248.
     
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  20. Earth Sciences-Images of the Earth: Essays in the History of the Environmental Sciences.Ludmilla Jordanova, Roy Porter & D. Oldroyd - 1999 - Annals of Science 56 (3):326-327.
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  21. Books and the Sciences in History. [REVIEW]Roy Porter - 2001 - British Journal for the History of Science 34 (2):233-250.
  22. Doctor of Society. Thomas Beddoes and the Sick Trade in Late-Enlightenment England.Roy Porter & Guenter B. Risse - 1994 - History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences 16 (1):155.
  23. From natural history to the history of nature. [REVIEW]Roy Porter - 1984 - British Journal for the History of Science 17 (3):321-322.
  24. The Age of Minerva. [REVIEW]Roy Porter - 1997 - British Journal for the History of Science 30 (2):233-249.
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  25. The Earth Sciences: An Annotated Bibliography.Roy Porter - 1984 - Journal of the History of Biology 17 (3):434-435.
     
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  26. Two Hundred Years of Geology in America. [REVIEW]Roy Porter - 1981 - British Journal for the History of Science 14 (2):209-210.
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    Nature and Society in Historical Context.Mikulâaés Teich, Roy Porter & Bo Gustafsson - 1997 - Cambridge University Press.
    In general terms, one way of describing the world we live in is to say that it is made up of nature and society, and that human beings belong to both. This is the first volume to be published that addresses the historical contexts of the relations between these two characteristics of human nature. Individual essays and the general conclusions of the volume are important not only for our understanding of the evolution of knowledge of nature and of society, but (...)
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    A Companion to the Enlightenment.John W. Yolton, Pat Rogers, Roy Porter & Barbara Stafford (eds.) - 1991 - Wiley-Blackwell.
    The Companion focusses on the international intellectual movement of the Enlightenment, and the individuals who shaped it. A number of substantial essays survey the main topics of dictionaries, encyclopedias, art, music and theatre, while central philosophical concepts such as human nature are also examined. Specialized topics receive short definitions and there are several hundred biographies. Chronology. 100 halftones. Bibliographies. Index.
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    James Paradis & Thomas Postlewait . Victorian Science and Victorian Values. Literary Perspectives. New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 1985. Pp. xiii + 362. [REVIEW]Roy Porter - 1987 - British Journal for the History of Science 20 (1):107-108.
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    Rethinking Institutions in Late Georgian England.Roy Porter - 1994 - Utilitas 6 (1):65.
    It is a great privilege to have been invited to speak on this occasion. I shall not talk about Janet Semple's life, since I did not know Janet Semple well. I first came across her work when the Oxford University Press sent me a copy of her Ph.D. thesis, asking for my opinion as to its publishability. I groaned—yet another study of the panopticon! I opened it, started reading—and read it straight through. It was so clear, insightful, powerful in its (...)
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    General Reason, Ridicule and Religion, The Age of Enlightenment in England, 1660–1750. By John Redwood. London: Thames and Hudson, 1976. Pp. 287. £7.00. [REVIEW]Roy Porter - 1977 - British Journal for the History of Science 10 (3):269-270.
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    Medical lecturing in Georgian London.Roy Porter - 1995 - British Journal for the History of Science 28 (1):91-99.
    Viewed in the light of the discussions of scientific lecturing in eighteenth-century London contained in this issue, the case of medicine may be said to be both more of the same but also something different.
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    Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries Fossils and Progress. Paleontology and the Idea of Progressive Evolution in the Nineteenth Century. By Peter J. Bowler. New York: Science History Publications, 1976. Pp. viii + 191 + XIV plates. [REVIEW]Roy Porter - 1978 - British Journal for the History of Science 11 (1):83-85.
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    Essay Review: Malthus and Darwin: The Works of Thomas Robert Malthus.Roy Porter - 1987 - History of Science 25 (2):215-216.
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    Christopher Fox. Locke and the Scriblerians. Identity and Consciousness in Early Eighteenth Century Britain. Berkeley, Los Angeles and London: University of California Press, 1988. Pp. 174. ISBN 0-520-05859-3. No price given. - Christopher Fox. Psychology and Literature in the Eighteenth Century. . New YorkAMS Press, 1987. Pp. 372. ISBN 0-404-61474-4. $42.50. [REVIEW]Roy Porter - 1990 - British Journal for the History of Science 23 (1):110-111.
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    Science and Literature The Lay of the Land. Metaphor as Experience and History in American Life and Letters. By Annette Kolodny. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1975. Pp. xiv + 186. No price stated. [REVIEW]Roy Porter - 1978 - British Journal for the History of Science 11 (2):178-179.
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    Book Review: To Justify the Ways of Boyle to Man: The Works of Robert Boyle, Robert Boyle : Scrupulosity and ScienceThe Works of Robert Boyle. edited by HunterMichael and DavisEdward B. . Pp. cxxxiv + 324; xxx + 508; xxviii + 580; xxiv + 594; xlvi + 568; lx + 558; xlii + 486; xlvi + 602; xlii + 470; lxii + 600; lxx + 456; lxviii + 548; lxx + 504; xlviii + 590. £1190/$1950.Robert Boyle : Scrupulosity and Science. HunterMichael . Pp. x + 293. £50/$90. [REVIEW]Roy Porter - 2001 - History of Science 39 (2):241-248.
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    Essay Review: The Omniologists: Gentlemen of Science: Early Years of the British Association for the Advancement of Science. MorrellJack and ThackrayArnold . Pp. xxiii + 592. £30.00.Roy Porter - 1982 - History of Science 20 (3):232-233.
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    La Macchina della terra: Teorie geologiche dal seicento all'ottocento. Nicoletta Morello.Roy Porter - 1981 - Isis 72 (4):664-665.
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    Essay Review: Danger: Science at Work: Technology and Toil in Nineteenth Century BritainTechnology and Toil in Nineteenth Century Britain. Edited by BergMaxine . Pp. 246. Hardback £9.50; paperback £3.50.Roy Porter - 1980 - History of Science 18 (4):303-304.
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    Lloyd G. Stevenson , A celebration of medical history. The fiftieth anniversary of the Johns Hopkins Institute of the History of Medicine and the Welch Medical Library. Baltimore and London: The John Hopkins University Press, 1982. Pp. vi + 228. £12.75/522.10. [REVIEW]Roy Porter - 1985 - British Journal for the History of Science 18 (1):83-84.
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    Sander L. Gilman. Difference and Pathology. Stereotypes of Sexuality, Race and Madness. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1985. Pp. 292. $38.45 , $14.25. [REVIEW]Roy Porter - 1987 - British Journal for the History of Science 20 (1):104-105.
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    Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries Dr Woodward's Shield. History, Science and Satire in Augustan England. By Joseph M. Levine. Berkeley, Los Angeles & London: University of California Press, 1977. Pp. x + 362. $19.75/£14.75. [REVIEW]Roy Porter - 1979 - British Journal for the History of Science 12 (2):227-228.
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    Marina Frasca-spada and Nick Jardine , books and the sciences in history. Cambridge: Cambridge university press, 2000. Pp. XIV+438. Isbn 0-521-65939-6. £18.95, $29.95. [REVIEW]Roy Porter - 2001 - British Journal for the History of Science 34 (2):233-250.
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    Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries Charles Darwin: ‘storia’ ed ‘economia’ della natura. By Giuliano Pancaldi. Firenze: La Nuova Italia, 1977. Pp. 212. L. 4,000. [REVIEW]Roy Porter - 1979 - British Journal for the History of Science 12 (1):99-100.
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    Attractions and sympathy. [REVIEW]Roy Porter - 1997 - Metascience 6 (2):38-41.
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    Essay Review: Strata and Their Data. [REVIEW]Roy Porter - 1987 - History of Science 25 (3):324-326.
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    Daniel Roche. Les Republicains des Lettres. Gens de Culture et Lumières au XVIII Siècle. Paris: Fayard, 1988. Pp. 393. ISBN 2-213-02122-8. 160 FF. [REVIEW]Roy Porter - 1989 - British Journal for the History of Science 22 (4):463-464.
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    Enlightenment Marguerite Carozzi, Voltaire's attitude toward geology. Geneva: Société de Physique et d'Histoire Naturelle, 1983. Pp. 146. SFRp 28. [REVIEW]Roy Porter - 1984 - British Journal for the History of Science 17 (1):116-117.
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    Essay Review: Physics & Geology: Lord Kelvin and the Age of the EarthLord Kelvin and the Age of the Earth. BurchfieldJoe D. . Pp. xii + 260. £10.Roy Porter - 1979 - History of Science 17 (3):216-220.
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