Roy Porter

81 books

Flesh in the Age of Reason: The Modern Foundations of Body and Soul by Simon Schama, Roy Porter

Flesh in the Age of Reason: The Modern Foundations of Body and Soul

Simon Schama, Roy Porter

592 pages • first pub 2003 (editions)

nonfiction history philosophy science informative slow-paced
Gout: The Patrician Malady by G. S. Rousseau, Roy Porter

Gout: The Patrician Malady

G. S. Rousseau, Roy Porter

408 pages • missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction health history informative medium-paced
The Greatest Benefit to Mankind: A Medical History of Humanity from Antiquity to the Present by Roy Porter

The Greatest Benefit to Mankind: A Medical History of Humanity from Antiquity to the Present

Roy Porter

848 pages • first pub 1997 (editions)

nonfiction history science informative slow-paced
Hysteria Beyond Freud by Sander L. Gilman, Roy Porter

Hysteria Beyond Freud

Sander L. Gilman, Roy Porter

478 pages • first pub 1993 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative reflective medium-paced
London: A Social History by Roy Porter

London: A Social History

Roy Porter

431 pages • first pub 1995 (editions)

nonfiction history informative slow-paced
Madmen: A Social History of Madhouses, Mad DoctorsLunatics by Roy Porter

Madmen: A Social History of Madhouses, Mad DoctorsLunatics

Roy Porter

344 pages • first pub 2004 (editions)

nonfiction history dark informative slow-paced
The Norton History of Astronomy and Cosmology by John North, Roy Porter

The Norton History of Astronomy and Cosmology

John North, Roy Porter

600 pages • first pub 1994 (editions)

nonfiction science challenging informative slow-paced
Patient's Progress: Sickness, Health and Medical Care, 1650-1850 by Dorothy Porter, Roy Porter

Patient's Progress: Sickness, Health and Medical Care, 1650-1850

Medicine and Society

Dorothy Porter, Roy Porter

320 pages • missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction health history informative medium-paced
Quacks: Fakers & Charlatans in Medicine by Roy Porter

Quacks: Fakers & Charlatans in Medicine

Roy Porter

320 pages • first pub 2000 (editions)

nonfiction history dark informative reflective medium-paced
The Renaissance, Second Edition by Peter Burke, John Breuilly, Roy Porter

The Renaissance, Second Edition

Peter Burke, John Breuilly, Roy Porter

88 pages • missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction history adventurous slow-paced