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The Hell-Fire Clubs: A history of Anti-Morality. . - Reviews - book review
The Hell Fire Clubs: A History of Anti-Morality. By Geoffrey Ashe (Stroud, Gloucs: Sutton Publishing, 2000). The Hell Fire Clubs: A History of...
Journal of Social History, 12/22/01 by Roy Porter · More from publication -
The Body Politic ~ Diseases and Discourses.(history of doctors in cartoons)
Roy Porter opens our new series on Picturing History, based on a series of lectures organised in conjunction with Reaktion Books, and shows how...
History Today, 10/01/01 by Porter, Roy · More from publication -
MATRIX OF MODERNITY.(British Enlightenment)
In his recent Royal Historical Society Gresham Lecture, Roy Porter discusses how the British Enlightenment paved the way for the creation of the...
History Today, 04/01/01 by Porter, Roy · More from publication -
Happy hedonists
Recipes for happiness Recipes for happiness How do we define happiness? Have humans always sought happiness? Is it worth pursuing? Should...
British Medical Journal, 12/23/00 by Roy Porter · More from publication -
Millennial musings are almost certainly bound to be wrong
It is safe to say that the future of medicine will involve more subspecialties and more procedures. Electronic communications will continue to have...
British Medical Journal, 11/04/00 by Roy Porter · More from publication -
Sex and the gender revolution: 1, Homosexuality and the third gender in Enlightenment London. xviii.(Review) (book review)
TRUMBACH, RANDOLPH. Sex and the gender revolution: 1, Homosexuality and the third gender in Enlightenment London. xviii, 509 pp., illus., tables,...
Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 06/01/00 by Porter, Roy · More from publication -
Tuberculosis in American Culture Since 1870. (book reviews)
Katherine Ott Harvard University Press 256 pp. 18.50 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0674 299108 With the emergence of drug-resistant strains of...
History Today, 05/01/98 by Porter, Roy · More from publication -
Reading is bad for your health. (European notions through the 19th century)(Cover Story)
Roy Porter, in his Longman/History Today lecture, warns of the bad eyesight, poor posture, incomprehensible babblings, addled wits, depravity and...
History Today, 03/01/98 by Porter, Roy · More from publication -
Bethlem/Bedlam: methods of madness? (history of Bethlem psychiatric hospital)(includes bibliography)
Bethlem is 750 this year, possibly the oldest psychiatric facility in Europe. Founded in 1247 by Simon fitzMary, an alderman and twice Sheriff of...
History Today, 10/01/97 by Porter, Roy · More from publication -
The rise and fall of the age of miracles. (medical technology)(What Has Made the Year 2000 - Science, Technology, Communications)
Roy Porter charts the whirlwind of medical triumphs that promised limitless progress in human health and our more sober reflections on the eve of...
History Today, 11/01/96 by Porter, Roy · More from publication
