Bodies Politic: Disease, Death and Doctors in Britain, 1650-1900 by Roy Porter

Bodies Politic: Disease, Death and Doctors in Britain, 1650-1900

Roy Porter

368 pages first pub 2001 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative reflective medium-paced
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In this historical tour de force, Roy Porter takes a critical look at representations of the body in health, disease, and death in Britain from the mid-seventeenth to the twentieth century. Porter argues that great symbolic weight was attached to ...

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