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Patients and healers in the context of culture. An exploration of the borderland between anthropology, medicine, and psychiatry
- R. Porter
- MedicineMedical History
- 1 October 1981
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Homosexuality and American psychiatry: the politics of diagnosis
- R. Porter
- PsychologyMedical History
- 1 October 1989
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Impure Science. AIDS, Activism and the Politics of Knowledge
- R. Porter
- Medicine
- 1 February 1997
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Madness: A Brief History
- R. Porter
- Psychology
- 18 April 2002
1. Introduction 2. Madness, Gods, and Demons 3. The Rationality of Madness 4. Fools and Folly 5. Locking up the Mad 6. The Rise of Psychiatry 7. The Mad 8. The Century of Psychoanalysis 9.…
The culture of pain
- R. Porter
- HistoryMedical History
- 1 July 1992
psychiatrists in linking women's mental health to their reproductive organs, and she underscores the extent to which both kinds of doctors reflected, rather than moulded, the moral prejudices of…
The greatest benefit to mankind : a medical history of humanity
- R. Porter
- History, Medicine
- 1998
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The anatomy of melancholy
- R. Porter
- LinguisticsMedical History
- 1 October 1990
Preface | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 Introduction to the Project Gutenberg Edition. This edition of The Anatomy of Melancholy is based on a nineteenth-century edition that modernized Burton's spelling…
Freud: biologist of the mind
- R. Porter
- PsychologyMedical History
- 1 July 1980
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Concepts of cleanliness: changing attitudes in France since the Middle Ages
- R. Porter
- HistoryMedical History
- 1 April 1989
In 1914, Sir Edward Grey saw the lights going out all over Europe. Rather similarly, George Vigarello's latest book opens, at the end of the Middle Ages, with the bath-houses being closed down all…
Enlightenment: Britain and the Creation of the Modern World
- R. Porter
- Education
- 2000
A blind spot? the birth of an ideology clearing away the rubbish print culture nationalising religion the culture of science anatomising human nature the science of politics secularising modernising…
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