Medicine in the Enlightenment

Roy Porter

1995年1月 · Clio Medica 第 29 本图书 · Rodopi

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Preface -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction -- 1. The Politics of Committal to Early Modern Bethlem -- Jonathan ANDREWS -- Medical Reform, the Enlightenment and Physician-Power in Late Eighteenth-Century France -- L.W.B. BROCKLISS -- Whose Enlightenment? Medicine, Witchcraft, Melancholia and Pathology -- Johanna GEYER-KORDESCH -- Sarah Stone, Enlightenment Midwife -- Isobel GRUNDY -- Developing Medical Expertise: Medical Practitioners and the Suspected Murders of New-Born Children -- Mark JACKSON -- Reflections on Medical Reform: Cabanis' Coup d'Œuil -- Ludmilla J. JORDANOVA -- The Enlightenment Encountered: The German Physicus and His World, 1750-1820 -- Mary LINDEMANN -- Conflicting Attitudes Towards Inoculation in Enlightenment Germany -- Andreas-Holger MAEHLE -- Honeyed Words: Bernard Mandeville and Medical Discourse -- Francis MCKEE -- Shaping Psychiatric Knowledge: The Role of the Asylum -- Roy PORTER -- Vitalism, Disease and Society -- Roselyne REY -- The Weight of Evidence and the Burden of Authority: Case Histories, Medical Statistics and Smallpox Inoculation -- Andrea A. RUSNOCK -- Methodism and Dr George Cheyne's 'More Enlightening Principles' -- David E. SHUTTLETON -- Anti-Lockean Enlightenment? Mind and Body in Early Eighteenth-Century English Medicine -- Akihito SUZUKI -- An Enlightenment Science? Surgery and the Royal Society -- Philip WILSON -- Index.

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Roy Sydney Porter was born December 31, 1946. He grew up in a south London working class home. He attended Wilson's Grammar School, Camberwell, and won an unheard of scholarship to Cambridge. His starred double first in history at Cambridge University (1968) led to a junior research fellowship at his college, Christ's, followed by a teaching post at Churchill College, Cambridge. His Ph.D. thesis, published as The Making Of Geology (1977), became the first of more than 100 books that he wrote or edited. Porter was a Fellow and Director of Studies in History at Churchill College, Cambridge from 1972 to 1979; Dean from 1977 to 1979; Assistant Lecturer in European History at Cambridge University from 1974 to 1977, Lecturer from 1977 to 1979. He joined the Wellcome Institute fot the History of Medicine in 1979 where he was a Senior Lecturer from 1979 to 1991, a Reader from 1991 to 1993, and finally a Professor in the Social History of Medicine from 1993 to 2001. Porter was Elected a fellow of the British Academy in 1994, and he was also made an honorary fellow by both the Royal College of Physicians and the Royal College of Psychiatrists. Roy Porter died March 4, 2002, at the age of 55.