Roy Sydney Porter
British historian
Works (50)

The greatest benefit to mankind
1997

Blood and guts
2002

English society in the eighteenth century
1982

A social history of madness
1987

London
2000

The Greatest Benefit to Mankind

The Cambridge illustrated history of medicine

The Western medical tradition

Quacks

Madmen

The Enlightenment
1990

Flesh in the Age of Reason
2003

Disease, medicine, and society in England, 1550-1860
1987

The Faber book of madness

Companion encyclopedia of the history of medicine

Madness

The Dialectics of friendship

The Hospital in history

Romanticism in national context

Pleasure in the eighteenth century

Sexual underworlds of the Enlightenment

Medicine

Fin de siècle and its legacy

The Cambridge History of Medicine

The age of anxiety

Gout
1998

William Hunter and the Eighteenth-Century Medical World

Revolution in history

Mind-forg'd manacles
1987

Bodies politic
2001

The biographical dictionary of scientists

The Cambridge history of science

The Codification of medical morality

The confinement of the insane

The facts of life
1995

Edward Gibbon
1988

A history of clinical psychiatry

Medical fringe & medical orthodoxy, 1750-1850

A dictionary of eighteenth-century world history

The history of medical education in Britain

Religion, health, and suffering

The Scientific revolution in national context

The Social history of language

The making of geology
1977

The industrial revolution in national context

The Popularization of medicine, 1650-1850

The Enlightenment in national context

Patients and Practitioners

Discovering the history of psychiatry

Dictionary of the history of science
1981