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Roy Porter

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born

December 31, 1946 in London, The United Kingdom

died

March 03, 2002

gender

male

website

http://www.royporter.com/

genre

History, Health, Mind & Body, Psychology

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Roy's books cover several fields: the history of geology, London, 18th-Century British ideas and society, medicine, madness, quackery, patients and practitioners, literature and art, on which subjects (and others) he published over 200 books are articles.

List of works can be found @ wikipedia ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Porter )

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Average rating: 3.69 · 829 ratings · 103 reviews · 102 distinct works

	Blood and Guts: A Short History of Medicine 3.58 avg rating — 165 ratings — published 2003 — 9 editions	My rating:
	The Greatest Benefit to Mankind: A Medical History of Humanity 3.93 avg rating — 123 ratings — 4 editions	My rating:
	Madness: A Brief History 3.42 avg rating — 134 ratings — published 2002 — 7 editions	My rating:
	English Society in the Eighteenth Century 3.74 avg rating — 85 ratings — published 1982 — 9 editions	My rating:
	Flesh in the Age of Reason: The Modern Foundations of Body and Soul by Roy Porter, Simon Schama (Forward) 3.94 avg rating — 64 ratings — published 2003 — 5 editions	My rating:
	London: A Social History 3.77 avg rating — 66 ratings — published 1995 — 6 editions	My rating:
	Enlightenment: Britain and the Creation of the Modern World 3.76 avg rating — 37 ratings — published 1990 — 4 editions	My rating:
	The Creation of the Modern World: The Untold Story of the British Enlightenment 3.46 avg rating — 26 ratings — published 2000 — 2 editions	My rating:
	A Social History of Madness 4.11 avg rating — 18 ratings — published 1988 — 4 editions	My rating:
	The Enlightenment 3.50 avg rating — 10 ratings — 2 editions	My rating:

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