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Blood and Guts: A Short History of Medicine by Roy Porter
$24.95 AUD
Category: History
Mankind's battle to stay alive is the greatest of all subjects. This brief, witty and unusual book by Britain's greatest medical historian compresses into a tiny span a lifetime spent thinking about millennia of human ingenuity in the quest to cheat death. Each chapter sums up one of these battlefields ...Show more
Bodies Politic: Disease, Death and Doctors in Britain, 1650-1900 by Roy Porter
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
A magisterial account by Roy Porter of representations of the body in health, disease and deathIn this historical tour de force, now available in B-format paperback, Roy Porter takes a critical look at representations of the body in health, disease and death in Britain from the mid-seventeenth to the tw ...Show more
ENLIGHTENMENT; BRITAIN AN by Roy Porter
$26.00 AUD
Category: History
For generations the traditional focus for those wishing to understand the roots of the modern world has been France on the eve of the Revolution. This work makes a case for considering Britain the true home of modernity - a country driven by an exuberance, diversity and power of invention comparable onl ...Show more
Flesh in the Age of Reason by Roy Porter
$24.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
'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 scabro ...Show more
Madness by Roy Porter
$24.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
What has it been like to be insane? How have the mad been treated? Is madness real or is it just a label? This fascinating story of madness reveals the radically different perceptions of madness and approaches to its treatment, from antiquity to the present day.
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