Roy Porter.

Roy Porter. Bodies Politic. Disease. Death, and Doctors in Britain, 1650-1900 Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Pres 2002 Pp 328 $3750 ISBN 0-8014-3953-1

Roy Porter's untimely death in March 2002 deprived "the lengthy eighteenth century" of its finest interpreter. Incredibly prolific, Porter redefined the historiography of the period, especially in the history of medicine. His works upon madness, quackery, and the patient revitalized the consideration of eighteenth-century medicine, formerly viewed as an uninteresting way-station between the Scientific Revolution and the

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