Medicine, Madness and Social History: Essays in Honour of Roy Porter

Front Matter....Pages i-x
Introduction: ‘De Omni Scribili’....Pages 1-13
Roy Porter and the Persons of History....Pages 14-21
Front Matter....Pages 23-23
Porter versus Foucault on the ‘Birth of the Clinic’....Pages 25-35
The ‘New History’ of the Enlightenment: An Essay in the Social History of Social History....Pages 36-45
The Politics of Particularism: Medicalization and Medical Reform in Nineteenth-century Britain....Pages 46-57
Charles Babbage and George Birkbeck: Science, Reform and Radicalism....Pages 58-69
Front Matter....Pages 71-71
French Dentists and English Teeth in the Long Eighteenth Century: A Tale of Two Cities and One Dentist....Pages 73-89
Hotbeds and Cool Fruits: The Unnatural Cultivation of the Eighteenth-century Cucumber....Pages 90-104
Arguing Disability: Ex-Servicemen’s Own Stories in Early Modern England, 1590–1790....Pages 105-117
Lunacy and Labouring Men: Narratives of Male Vulnerability in Mid-Victorian London....Pages 118-128
‘Arrows of Desire’: British Sexual Utopians and the Politics of Health....Pages 129-138
‘Twenty Centuries of Christianity Weigh Heavily on Women’s Brains …’: Anarchism, Science and Women’s Nature in Spain at the Turn of the Twentieth Century....Pages 139-147
‘A Band of Lunatics down Camberwell Way’: Percy Lane Oliver and Voluntary Blood Donation in Interwar Britain....Pages 148-158
Front Matter....Pages 159-159
Murder, Melancholy and the Insanity Defence in Eighteenth-century Hamburg....Pages 161-172
‘One of the Best-Known Identity Crises in History’? John Stuart Mill’s Mental Crisis and its Meanings....Pages 173-181
Murder by Hypnosis? Altered States and the Mental Geography of Science....Pages 182-196
Maladies of the Will: Freedom, Fetters and the Fear of Freud....Pages 197-209
Two Cultures Revisited: The Case of the Fin de Siècle ....Pages 210-223
Roy....Pages 225-227
Back Matter....Pages 228-295