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Product Description: Book by Hobbs, William, Porter, Roy

Product Description: Arising out of a conference commemorating the two hundredth anniversary of the death of William Hunter (1718-1783), this book explores the career of that highly successful physician, obstetrician, medical educator and man of culture against the backgrounds of the medical, intellectual, social and medical-institutional worlds of his time...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Brings together a rich and full sample of the best research being conducted into the history of British and Continental European madness and psychiatry.

The essays in this volume provide an unusual historical perspective on the experience of illness: they try to reconstruct what being ill (from a minor ailment to fatal sickness) was like in pre-industrial society from the point of view of the sufferers themselves. The authors examine the meanings that were attached to sickness; popular medical beliefs and practices; the diffusion of popular medical knowledge; and the relations between patients and their doctors (both professional and 'fringe') seen from the patients' point of view. This is an important work, for illness and death dominated life in earlier societies to an enormous degree. Yet almost no studies of this kind have ever been carried out before, practically all previous treatments having been written from the traditional point of view of the doctor, the hospital, or medical science. It will accordingly interest a wide range of readers interested in social history as well as the history of medicine itself. (view table of contents)

All serious historical inquiry constantly encounters these major questions: what are the forces of historical change? and are there any general patterns shaping historical development? Theories of revolution have figured large in historians' explanations, yet they have remained deeply controversial, not least because of the complexity - and often ambiguity - of such notions of revolution themselves. In this book fifteen contributors, leading historians and renowned experts in particular fields or periods, examine the interpretative value of ideas of revolution for explaining historical development within their own specialism, assessing the existing historiography and offering their own personal views. The book presents a conspectus of modern historical opinion, provides a sweeping historical overview, and offers students an invaluable introduction to major questions of historiographical interpretation and controversy. (view table of contents)

Explores the roots of rape and its expressions in today's male-dominated society, reveals how the feminist movement has altered people's ideas about the cry of rape, and reflects upon rape as an ever-present reality in a woman's consciousness

Product Description: 1750-1850 was a period in medical history which saw a cross over between the emergent professionalized medical orthodoxy and the traditional 'fringe' practitioners. These essays present new research on this fascinating period.

In his short but authoritative study, Roy Porter assesses the impact of disease on the English before the widespread availability and public provision of medical care, incorporating into the revised edition new perspectives offered by recent research. He examines the medical profession, attitudes to doctors and disease, and the development of state involvement in public health. Drawing together much fragmentary material and providing a detailed bibliography, this book is an important guide to the history of medicine and to English social history. (view table of contents)

In the last few years, social historians have discovered what might be called the 'linguistic dimension' of their discipline, just as sociolinguists have been discovering the 'historical dimension' and historians of language the 'social dimension'. They have become interested in language both as a source for social history and also as a historical phenomenon in its own right. This volume of essays brings together some of this recent work by social historians of Britain, France and Italy from the sixteenth to the twentieth century. The authors concern themselves with the politics as well as the sociology of language; with dialect as well as standard languages; with writing as well as speech; with the language of women as well as that of men; with the language of politeness and the language of insult; the language of deference and the language of revolt; the language of sub-cultures and counter-cultures as well as those of the elites and 'the people'. (view table of contents)

Examines the lives and accomplishments of Aristotle, Ptolemy, Galileo, Kepler, Newton, Priestley, Lavoisier, Watt, Faraday, Darwin, Pasteur, Einstein, Bohr, and Turing

Product Description: A history of madness in England from the Restoration to the Regency.

Product Description: An exploration of the unknown dimensions of Enlightenment sexuality, which describes lesbianism and homosexuality in their historical contexts, public prurience and fascination with the sexually bizarre, pornography, prostitution and the victims of sexual malpractices and repression...read more

Uses the autobiographical writings of the mentally ill from the past to depict what they felt about their condition, life and times

Product Description: The main literary and artistic currents of Romanticism are well known. This volume aims uniquely to set them in their wider contexts. Thirteen distinguished contributors examine the particular configurations of the Romantic movement within individual national contexts...read more

Product Description: A specially commissioned collection of essays covering a generous sample of recent scholarship on nineteenth century psychiatry. The full bibliographies guide the reader to other works in the field. This book should be of interest to postgraduate students of psychiatry and social history and practising psychiatrists...read more

Pre-modern society was overshadowed by illness and the threat of death. This outstanding new book ex....

Explores the roots of rape and its expressions in today's male-dominated society, reveals how the feminist movement has altered people's ideas about the cry of rape, and reflects upon rape as an ever-present reality in a woman's consciousness

Product Description: The authors explore the hospitals' role in society at different times and places throughout history from medieval Britain to 19th century Germany and modern U.S.A. This book should be of interest to students of social history, medical sociology and social policy.

Product Description: Book by Porter, Dorothy, Porter, Roy